If Robert PortersPorter's body was being inhabited by an alien that traveled far faster than the speed of light, which no human body could withstand, how was Prot traveling on earth for 5 years in Robert PortersPorter's body.? In the movie he went up north and was missing from the psych ward for three days. How did he travel in RobertsRobert's body? Robert PortersPorter's body just appeared in the train station. How? The movie leaves this unanswered.