- [first lines]
- Simon: I know what caused the flash-forwards... You don't believe me.
- Camille: Well, of course I do. The world's greatest mystery's been solved by a boozer on a train bound for Los Angeles.
- Simon: [points to her cellphone] Can you connect to the Internet with that? Real quick, do an image search for "Quantum Physicist Genius". Go on; I'll wait... Which came up first, me winning the Robert Wilson award or the jaunty one of me holding lab goggles over my genitals?
- Camille: [stunned to see the second image pop up] Hold up - you really...
- Simon: I'm obviously wasting my time.
- Camille: I'm sorry; I've just heard that line a hundred times before.
- Simon: Do you really want to know?
- Camille: Of course.
- Simon: The flash-forwards were caused by you. It's simple quantum mechanics, really. Whenever a heavenly body carries such an intense force of attraction, the universe just goes... bananas.
- Camille: [vaguely amused] Sounds technical.
- Simon: Helps if you have a Ph.D. or two. If my calculations are correct, your dark energy can bring about another catastrophe at any moment.
- [last lines]
- Lloyd Simcoe: Our experiment killed 20 million people, Simon. What more is there to say?