- Medea: I thought Jay was the wrecker.
- Fractal: It's within the statistical sphere of probabilities.
- Medea: But we got rid of him. Now this?
- Fractal: See, the trouble with the unscientific method is it's nonspecificity. What's important is not your ouija board. What's important is A. hypothesis, B. antithesis and C. synthesis.
- Medea: I knew that.
- Fractal: Thesis: Jay by his very presence will wreck the world.
- Medea: I already said that.
- Fractal: Antithesis: Jay by his very presence will not wreck the world. Neither the antithesis nor the thesis concur with the empirical realities of observation. Jay was in the world a long time without it getting wrecked. However, there does appear to be a link between him and the world falling apart. Synthesis: Jay wrecks the world when he leaves it.
- Medea: Oh. Of course. Everything started to fall apart when he left. And the grownups?
- Fractal: To restate the obvious, stories of the grownups only became rampant only after the world started to fall apart.
- Medea: [groans] I've been trying to get rid of him when all along I should've been trying to lock him up here forever.
- Fractal: If you can lock up someone who just disappears.
- Medea: Well, then, we'll just have to convince him that it's in everybody's best interest for him to stay.
- Fractal: First, you have to get him to come back.