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R&M are still standing in the museum.
Rob: We can’t go around changing history. I mean, it could have catastrophic consequences on everything in our time line … I mean we might’ve already messed up enough stuff. Not to mention the impossibility of finding that grad student guy …
Mandy: Quit worrying. I’ve got a pretty good suspicion that our Most Chronic Grad Student would never be too far from the library. Let’s go back there.
Rob and Mandy in a bubble taxi slowly hovering around the library. The houses and surrounding environs are set in a weird Jetsonian throwback with lots of Seattle Space Needle-like platforms, bubble cars, bubble houses, gardens floating in the middle of the air, etc.
Rob: We’ll never …
Mandy (pointing): There he is!
Rob gives Mandy a look.
R&M take a floating bubble taxi to the GS student’s house which is right across the sky-street from the library. In the background of the GS’s flat, Rosie the robot maid sweeps up some kind of rubble on the carpet. The kids ring the doorbell and the GS presses a button and the door to his apartment flings upward into the wall.
GS: You two!
Rob: Dude. The cops are after us so we don’t have any time. Tell me how this thing works or I’ll strand you in the Cretaceous Period.
GS: But, you’re Him. The device is yours. You made it … you should …