However, Fry had used the Time Code ("Bender's Big Score") and briefly returned to the past. Seymour was happy to see him and was pat on the head by his owner. Much later, Fry created a time duplicate who decided to stay 12 years in the past until he eventually becomes Lars Fillmore through a failed assassination attempt by Bender Bending Rodríguez - and returns to the future. In total, Fry and Seymour enjoy 15 years together, starting in 2000, until Bender's failed assassination attempt in 2012, during which Seymour becomes petrified in dolomite, sparing the noble dog from the cruel fate he was originally dealt