Meanwhile, Hellinger is busy making the kind of small talk that suggests when he's not busy trying to engineer radical global hops through space-time, he's watching CSI and shivering with delighted horror at all the scenes where Nicky breaks out the UV light in a hotel room. Both Simon and Lita look vaguely queasy at this, but patiently wait for the big man to get to the point. His point: "We're a day away from the 29th. It's time to come home." Simon succinctly replies, "Piss off." Hellinger asks Lita to go get some ice for those drinks, and once she's gone, he and Simon engage in a frank exchange of views. Hellinger's view is that Simon has no choice but to come and work for him; Simon's view is that "you need me. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here. I'm the only person that can calibrate the accelerator, and you know it." He grabs his coat, takes his hat off Lita's head, and waltzes out the door. We get a delightful shot of Hellinger glaring at Lita as if she's somehow responsible for this.

Another FBI shot, another cardio lap around the FBI office. This time, Mark and Demetri are discussing the multiverse, more or less, as Demetri frets he's not supposed to be alive. Mark admonishes him, "Don't go there." He's not sure the universe is pushing us toward one specific outcome, ergo Demetri's being alive is not throwing off the balance of the universe. Awww! Demetri notes, "After ten o'clock tomorrow night, we're going to have to go back to living the way we used to." Mark -- who is watching Olivia play on her crackberry as she sits next to Gabriel -- nods. Demetri says brightly, "Gotta say, kind of looking forward to it." Mark's now thoroughly distracted, as Lloyd has just sauntered by and Olivia's dropped what she's doing so she can give him a big, gooey smile. Man, I'm all for Llolivia, but have some subtlety, woman!

Olivia makes small talk with Lloyd regarding how his progress is going sans Simon, and Lloyd admits he's having problems with the "decoherence equation." This triggers another round of Gabriel's recollection, and he says, "You do the numbers together, they have to be in the right order, and then you're both part of the equation. Both of you are part of the equation, yeah."