1. Sure this thing is gonna work?
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the U.S. Government
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3. a pretty penny,
doctor.
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4. The Chrono-logger is hardly a
time machine
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5. in the sense of a vehicle,
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6. but rather a subatomic drill
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7. designed to bore a tunnel
in the fabric of space-time.
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8. As to cost,
I think the alleviation
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9. of untold human suffering
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10. throughout history is
ample justification, General.
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11. It'll also give our
red buddies overseas
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12. a thing or two
to think about.
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13. But to answer your first
question,
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14. there is only one way
to find out.
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15. You're certain we're safe,
doctor?
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16. I'm not certain of anything,
Hugo,
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17. but the chrono-magnetic field
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18. we've generated should
protect us.
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19. Doctor, I... I'm frightened.
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20. Have a gumball.
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21. It'll calm your nerves.
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22. You didn't need to come.
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23. Gwen and I could've handled
this alone.
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24. It's nothing, really.
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25. Doesn't sound like nothing.
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26. Weird noises, unearthly lights,
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27. rumors of weird creatures out here?
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28. Yeah, the dudes I heard it
from aren't totally reliable.
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29. Isn't that, like, a big
bad-boy thing to do...
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30. come out here to the ghost town
to drag-race?
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31. How should I know?
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32. I just know them from auto shop.
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33. Grandpa Max said
Los Soledad
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34. used to be a big military base
back in the '50s.
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35. Some kind of research facility.
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36. Yeah.
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37. Must've been some pretty serious
research.
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38. Check out these walls.
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39. 50 years later and there's still
no way in.
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40. No way.
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41. These weren't here.
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42. Did anyone notice some of them
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43. are vaguely person-shaped?
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44. Weird.
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45. Maybe something...
I don't know...
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46. burned through the wall.
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47. Like what?
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48. The same thing that burned these
weird trails everywhere.
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49. Look.
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50. This is a bird.
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51. And these are lizard bones.
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52. They're fossilized.
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53. And they're not
the only thing.
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54. It's like someone turned this slate
into sand just by standing on it.
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55. He was probably on hold.
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56. The trail goes to the
police station, then to those...
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57. I guess they're apartments.
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58. Just to review, someone stood here
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59. a million years ago and then
walked to those buildings
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60. that were built
50 years ago?
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61. You are not helping.
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62. These could be signs of serious
DNAlien activity,
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63. and it's up to us...
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64. DNAliens are not doing this.
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65. Does that look like DNAlien to you?
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66. Finally something worth the gas.
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67. Chromastone!
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68. Look out!
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69. Gone.
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70. At least the building
it destroyed wasn't the library.
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71. You really love the books.
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72. She's saying we have to research,
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73. find out what that
thing is.
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74. All we know so far
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75. is that it's looking for
something here on the base.
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76. These films are really
corroded, but it looks like
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77. this base was built for some
kind of
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78. time experiment called project
Paradox.
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79. Who wouldn't pick the desert
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80. outside Bellwood to do
top-secret research?
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81. They built it here because of
the huge quartz deposits.
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82. Quartz time?
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83. Maybe they were trying to build
the world's biggest wristwatch.
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84. His name's been censored.
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85. Whoever he was, his paradox
theory was the basis
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86. of some kind of experimental
tunnel through time.
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87. Looks like my place
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88. after that big party I threw
last weekend.
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89. Look.
That thing has been here, too.
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90. Only one trail.
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91. It either came in here and
vanished...
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92. Or it was born here.
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93. Swampfire!
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94. Got you.
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95. "Swampfire."
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96. That takes me back.
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97. Or is it forward?
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98. It's so hard to tell, Ben.
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99. Have we met?
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100. How do you know my name?
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101. Have we met yet,I suppose
the question was.
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102. Hey, it's that dork
from the photo, the paradox guy.
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103. You haven't changed at
all in 50 years.
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104. Oh, considerably more than that.
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105. Gumball?
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106. No, thanks.
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107. Who are you?
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108. What's your name?
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109. You just read my file.
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110. I was rather hoping you could
tell me.
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111. It slipped my mind several
hundred years ago.
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112. Did he just say
"several hundred years"?
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113. Did you just say...
hey.
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114. By the way, you didn't happen
to see a space-time
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115. anomaly around here,
did you...
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116. about ye big, incredibly
destructive,
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117. virtually unstoppable?
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118. No, I must've been thinking of
another moment.
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119. Ta-ta!
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120. Where'd he...
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121. He's out there.
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122. He's obviously
connected to that creature.
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123. We need to talk to him.
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124. Oh, yeah, we'll talk.
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125. Right after the pounding!
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126. Huh?
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127. Was I in there?
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128. That was public property,
you know.
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129. How does he move so fast?
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130. You mean,
how do I move so quickly?
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131. It's called "walking."
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132. Strolling, really.
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133. That's better.
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134. Easy on the jacket.
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135. It's 1,200 years old.
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136. Anyway, thanks.
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137. "Thanks"?
For what?
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138. Well, I had a feeling if we
made a loud enough racket,
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139. he'd show up.
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140. Finally something we
can hit.
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141. Oh, I really don't think
that's a good idea.
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142. Those trails.
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143. They're not burn marks.
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144. They're... age.
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145. The creature accelerates time.
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146. Very good.
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147. Not so fast, ugly!
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148. Aah!
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149. Kevin!
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150. Kevin!
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151. Just touching that thing
aged him 60, 80 years.
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152. We've got to get him to a
hospital.
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153. What are you doing?
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154. Get your hands off me.
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155. Come on, Kevin, we're
gonna get you some help.
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156. What do you mean,
"help"?
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157. I'm gonna kick that thing's keister!
Oy!
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158. Are you okay?
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159. My back is killing me.
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160. My legs ache.
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161. And what's up with these shoes?
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162. Is it too much to ask for a
little support?
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163. He's like a real irritable,
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164. short-tempered,
crotchety old man.
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165. Why are you whispering?
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166. In other words, aside
from the male-pattern baldness,
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167. he's pretty much the same as
always.
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168. Come on, old man.
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169. I'll take those.
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170. What do you think
you're doing?
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171. Driving.
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172. Don't even think about it.
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173. You don't have a license.
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174. Grandpa Max taught me,
and it's an emergency.
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175. You're nearsighted, arthritic,
your reflexes are shot,
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176. and you're trying
to unlock a cactus.
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177. You should've gone out with me
when I was young and handsome.
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178. You were too immature.
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179. What about now?
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180. Too old.
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181. Whoops!
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182. It's not a bumper car!
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183. Back up, back up, back up!
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184. Ben, on the right!
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185. No! No!
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186. Not the car!
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187. Not the car!
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188. Hang on.
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189. You are never driving
my car again!
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190. True.
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191. Where have you been?
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192. You were supposed to get here
six seconds ago.
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193. Or it this thing running fast?
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194. Who are you, anyway?
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195. What are you doing here?
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196. What is that creature?
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197. Can you fix my car?
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198. There's something different
about you.
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199. Is it your hair?
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200. Yeah, I'm parting it
down the middle now,
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201. and I also got real old!
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202. Don't talk to me about old.
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203. I walk in eternity.
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204. Well, you better start
running in eternity, smart guy!
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205. Hmm. You might slow us down.
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206. I need to fix that.
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207. We'll come back right over there.
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208. Kevin.
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209. I can't believe it.
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210. You're good as new.
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211. Well, my back still
hurts a little.
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212. If I could just lean on you...
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213. All right, professor, if you
wouldn't mind fixing my car.
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214. How exactly do you expect me
to do that?
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215. I'm a time traveler,
not a body shop.
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216. Regressing a car would break all
the chronal laws
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217. of space-time and...
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218. Okay! Enough!
I want answers... now.
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219. Same old Ben Tennyson.
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220. You're even more like yourself
now than you were in the future,
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221. which, for obvious reasons,
I can't really tell you about.
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222. You want me to hurt him?
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223. What can you tell us,
Mister... Paradox?
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224. Paradox.
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225. Oh, yes, that'll do.
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226. That'll do very nicely.
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227. I'll tell you my story in a way
you can understand...
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228. with a beginning, middle,
and end.
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229. We'll start in the middle.
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230. Los Soledad was built entirely
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231. because of my ingenious
theory...
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232. a time tunnel utilizing the
properties I discovered
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233. in quartz crystals
which would allow us access
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234. to past and future events.
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235. Yeah, well, for a genius,
looks like you blew it.
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236. You don't know the half of it.
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237. Some tiny miscalculation on my
part destabilized the experiment
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238. and ripped a hole in the fabric
of reality.
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239. I was hurled into the event
horizon.
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240. I must've spent
100,000 years there.
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241. I didn't age or need
to sleep or eat.
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242. Just exist.
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243. Sounds pretty boring.
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244. At first I went mad, of
course, but after a few millennia,
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245. I got bored with that, too,
and went sane...
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246. very sane.
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247. I began to learn.
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248. I now have total understanding
of the space-time continuum,
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249. allowing me to travel anywhere
and anywhen I want,
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250. within reason.
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251. So, where's your time
machine?
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252. He doesn't have a time
machine.
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253. He has a map in his head.
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254. Exactly.
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255. I know where all the shortcuts are.
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256. I've spent a dozen lifetimes
crisscrossing the time stream,
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257. making it a better place.
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258. And how does that pay?
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259. At the moment, not even in
job satisfaction.
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260. You see, I recently discovered
that some kind of
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262. is going to wreak havoc across
the universe.
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263. So?
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264. Way you talk, you take on
monsters like this all the time.
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265. Why is this one so bad?
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266. Because unlike the thousands
of foes I faced before,
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267. this extradimensional creature
came into our plane of reality
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268. the moment my
experiment went awry.
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269. Oh.
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270. So, just to be clear,
it's your fault.
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271. This creature hasn't been lurking
around here for 50 years.
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272. We would know about it.
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273. Time is like a river.
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274. It moves, flows, and bends.
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275. 50 years ago,
I accidentally set off
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276. a depth charge in that river.
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277. The creature I released was
blasted 50 years through time
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278. to your present,
doing this to your future.
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279. But all it's doing is
messing up an old army base.
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280. Why is that a problem at all?
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281. Why not just leave it alone?
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282. That's a better question for
the man on the moon.
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283. What?
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284. Who's the man on the moon?
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285. I am.
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286. We're on the moon.
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287. No, we're on the moon in your
distant future.
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288. What?
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289. How are we not suffocating?
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290. Good question.
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291. Not remotely the point, though.
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292. Imagine what the Earth would
look like in 200 years, say,
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293. with that time monster wandering
all over it,
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294. aging everything
that crossed its path to dust.
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295. For those of you with
no imagination,
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296. the Earth is up there.
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297. You brought us to the worst
possible version of the future.
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298. No.
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299. Should I fail to stop that
creature,
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300. this is your best
possible future.
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301. Not a pretty sight, is it?
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302. What are you doing here?
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303. I'm allowing myself to feel
the full impact of my failure.
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304. Okay. Who's he?
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305. He's a parallel paradox.
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306. Young Ben has an innate sense
of transtemporal metaphysics,
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307. which will serve him well in his
future...
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308. or should I say "past."
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309. And I drive good, too.
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310. We can breathe on
the moon in the future,
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311. but you can't fix my car?
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312. What should I do?
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313. Well,
obviously not what I did.
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314. But whatever you do,
you better do it quickly.
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315. Time is running out.
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316. Why come back here?
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317. Why don't we travel back in time
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318. and stop the time experiment
from ever happening?
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319. Isn't it just like an energy being
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320. to think outside temporal
conventions?
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321. I'm not an energy...
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322. The experiment that releases
the creature also unsticks me
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323. in time,
and that must happen because
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325. You save the world
dozens of times.
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326. Hundreds, actually.
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327. In fact, on one occasion,
you and I worked together
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328. to save the entire univ...
never mind.
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329. It should be here any...
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330. You could set your watch by it.
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331. Jetray!
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332. They hit it?
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333. Doesn't everything age
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334. into oblivion as soon as they
touch it?
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335. Gumballs last a really long time.
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336. Look under your desk at school.
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337. Now, get back!
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338. Let go!
He'll age you into dust!
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339. I exist outside of time.
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340. Well, I can still feel the eons
passing.
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341. Paradox, take us back to
the accident... now.
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342. But I told you!
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343. Just do it!
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344. Kevin, Gwen...
the lab.
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345. Quick!
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346. You just keep that thing
occupied.
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347. K-keep it occupied?
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348. I'm a time-traveling hero.
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349. I don't keep things occupied.
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350. Sure this thing is gonna work?
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351. Your time machine has cost
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352. the U.S. Government a pretty
penny, doctor.
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353. As to cost, I think the
alleviation of untold
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354. human suffering throughout history
is ample justification, General.
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355. Why would it use the phone?
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356. What?
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357. The creature.
It tried to use the pay phone.
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358. Then it went to the police station,
then the dorms.
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359. It didn't act like some
unfathomable
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360. transdimensional creature.
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361. It did everything a normal
person would do...
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362. If they suddenly found
themselves
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363. in an abandoned
military base.
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364. Look there.
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365. The assistant.
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366. Aah!
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367. Ben, you'll get sucked
in along with him!
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368. I need to put on a
little weight.
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369. Humongousaur!
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370. Whoa!
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371. Trust me.
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372. This beats the alternative.
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373. Hugo!
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374. Of course.
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375. If it were a snake,
it would've bit me.
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376. But don't look so smug.
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377. I would've figured it out
eventually.
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378. You had 100,000 years!
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379. Well, I have to admit it.
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380. I'm impressed.
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381. All those centuries trapped in
the Event Horizon,
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382. and it never occurred to me that
the accident wasn't my fault.
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383. You're much smarter than you
were when I met you later.
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384. Thanks... I guess.
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385. What happened to him,
your assistant?
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386. I lived my life.
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387. Hugo!
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388. How are you?
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389. Well, you look the same, and
I haven't seen you in 50 years.
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390. Well, I haven't seen you in
100,000 years,
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391. but you don't look that bad.
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392. How was your life?
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393. Good, a good life.
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394. But I'm...
I'm sorry about the experiment.
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395. I ruined everything.
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396. I never got to time-travel.
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397. Would you still like to?
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398. Yes.
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399. I'm not afraid anymore.
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400. Glad to hear it.
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401. How about I give you
a behind-the-scenes look at eternity?
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402. At least he's got
company now.
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403. Oh, and thanks for stranding
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the middle of nowhere!
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405. Come on.
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406. We've got a long walk home.
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407. Oh, ho, ho, ho!
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408. Stoked!
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409. It looks like new.
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410. It doesn't just look
like new.
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411. It is new.
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412. It's factory-new from 30 years ago.
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413. Paradox, I take back everything
I was about to say about you.
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414. "Kevin, try to keep in mind
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contact with anything else
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it will explode like antimatter.
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417. Enjoy!
Paradox."
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419. That's some kind of time-travel
joke, right?
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420. Isn't it... guys?
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