Jack Deth is back... and he's never even been here before!
Jack Deth is a kind of cop/bounty hunter in the bleak Los Angeles of the future. He has become obsessed with chasing Whistler -- an evil criminal who uses powerful hypnotic powers to transform people into zombie-like creatures known as trancers. Whistler has managed to escape through time travel and is loose in 1980s L.A., but Deth is on his trail.
Jack Deth is sent back to this year to stop Whistler. There's a mall Santa, and talk of someone going out of town for Christmas, setting it in December.
Dec 25, 1985
Helen Hunt tells old Tim Thomerson that it's after midnight, December 25th, and gives him a present.
Jul, 2247
The month is stated as July by Jack in the prologue, and in the Christmas scene, where he says it's July in his time.