The goal in playing a level is to try to evacuate all of the people in it sucessfully. You will need to make a number of sorties in order to evacuate everyone. Each sortie should go something like this:

Preflight:

You start the level on the Briefing screen. First select 'Rescue List' - here you will see a 3d map of the level and a list of the people in it - at first they will all be in a colunm on the left of the screen entitled 'Doomed' As you recue people, they will be moved to the right hand colunm marked 'Saved'

At the Bottom left of the screen is a button labelled 'Set Waypoint', click this button and then click on the person you want to rescue first. The location of this person will be hilighted on the map with a flashing orange ball. Check if there are other evacuees nearby (red dots) If so, try to pick them all up in the same sortie.

Press Esc to return to the briefing screen, then choose Team Select. Here you can pick which pilot and which Jet Car to use in this sortie. Picking a pilot is mainly a choice between each nun's Lucky Charm - information about the selected nun's lucky charm's abilities appears in the bottom left of the screen. At the start of the game, most of the nuns will have the same Charm, so just pick anyone.

There are many considerations in choosing a vehicle, how many people are you going to try and pick up is an important one - its no use taking a car with only 2 passenger seats to pick up a group of 4 evacuees. When you have picked a car and driver, press 'Esc' to return to the main Briefing screen.

Before you can start, you need to choose a start time for your sortie in the time line on the right. It is generally best to start the first sortie at an early point in the time line, and start the subsequent sorties at increasingly later times. Refer to the Travelling in Time section for more on this.

Just before you begin your sortie, check the sortie info box at the top left of the screen - it shows you which nun, lucky charm, jet car and waypoint are selected. If Everything seems OK, hit 'Begin Sortie' to start.

In Flight:

You will drop out of a glowing ball of light - this is the time gate: The only way to leave the level alive is to fly or drive back into this.

There should be an orange line leading off into the distance - this line always leads from your current location to the waypoint you selected on the Rescue List screen. If at some point you can't see the orange line, it will be behind you leading off in the other direction. Stop and turn around!

Fly or drive (as you prefer) along the tunnel following the line. You will recognise where the waypoint is beceause the orange line will go straight down into the ground at that point. Look around for people there should be at least one person in the vicinity - when you spot a person, drive close to them - they will wave at you to stop - press down the brakes and keep holding down the brakes button until they have entered the vehicle. If there are other people nearby, wait for everyone to get onboard.

The number of people inside your jet car is indicated by the number of faces in the top left corner of the screen. Empty circles indicate the number of free seats.

Once you have picked up all the people you came for, turn around until you can see a blue line. The blue line always leads from your current location to the time gate exit point. Fly or drive along the line and into the glowing ball of light at the end. Thats it - you're done!

Debriefing:

You should now be presented with the results screen - this is just an image of all the people you have saved - if there are two rows of people, the ones down the front are people you saved this sortie, and the others are ones saved on previous sorties. If someone turns red, falls down and fades away, it means that they were rescued previously, but your latest sortie caused changes that resulted in them not making it out this time around - Check the Travelling In Time section for tips on avoiding this. Press return to continue.

You will next be taken back to the Rescue List screen. Here all the names of the people from the last screen should be written in the green 'Saved' list. Look for anyone who has a blinking exclamation mark next to their name - click on them, they might give you a reward for rescuing them. If not, it means they have a reward, but you need to do something for them to claim it - listen to what they have to say to figure out what it is they want.

You are now ready to start a new sortie. Take as many sorties as you need, but try and save everyone in the end!