Erika Alexander credited as playing...
Shanti
- Shanti: We used *huge* amounts of energy to create this image!
- Doug Carlin: Alright, how huge?
- Denny: Well you remember that little blackout we had a few years back, we blamed Canada, Canada blamed Michigan...
- Doug Carlin: Half the northeast. You're saying you guys...
- Denny: 50 million homes?
- Gunnars: [raises hand] My bad!
- Denny: Well, I still say we blame Canada, but...
- Doug Carlin: [watching Pryzwarra write the note] ... 2 L's. Surveilling, 2 L's.
- Denny: [sarcastic laugh] ... since this is such a tremendous waste of taxpayer money, the least we could do is get the spelling right.
- Shanti: That's not necessarily true. Branching Universe Theory holds you can do...
- Denny: Ohhh... Branching... Universe... Theory... ohhh, no no no.
- Shanti: Alright, I'll show you. The traditional view of time is linear, like a river, flowing from the past towards the future.
- Doug Carlin: But you can change the course of a river, right?
- Shanti: Exactly. Introduce a significant enough event at any point in this river and you create a new branch, still flowing toward the future, but along a different route. Changed.
- Denny: Yeah, but that river is the Mississippi and we're lobbing what amounts to a pebble into it. That's a very few tiny ripples in a kind of big body of water, don't you think?
- Shanti: Traditionalist.
- Agent Pryzwarra: Say we do create this new branch. What happens to the old one to this one?
- Denny: [referring to Shanti] ... Ask the radical!
- Shanti: Well, it might continue parallel to the new branch. Most likely, it ceases to exist.
- Denny: The idea is we cease to exist, alright? Or this version of us, anyway. Umm, we never came here, we didn't meet Doug, we don't remember it ever happening.
- Agent Pryzwarra: Well, that's worth 10 billion right there.
