Beck: "Today was bonkers! Hey, what's this about the end of the world? I mean, it's all we ever talk about, but I'm kind of dumb."
Hank: "Well I guess maybe the world is already ended or is in the process of ending or it has to do with clocks. Or AIDS. Or clocks with AIDS."
Beck: "Maybe it has to do with those fishermen pouring red stuff in the river so that it looks like blood? I mean, a thing that happens all the time every day in this culture, but because you're here to see it, it becomes the Apocalypse? Sure."
Hank: "Maybe. You just can't tell. All I know is, finding these clocks is going to kill everyone on Earth. So that's what we gotta do."
Beck: "I am right here to sky for ya, bro."
NEXT WEEK
Couldn't care less, frankly. I guess Einstein was a Nazi? Or a Rosicrucian? Sure, whatever. Go for it. It's going to be awesome either way, if you like crazy things, and I do like crazy things, so why bother piecing together that which cannot be pieced?
JACOB CLIFTON is a freelance writer and critic based in Austin, Texas. He currently recaps The Good Wife, Deception, Zero Hour, and Pretty Little Liars for TWoP. Jacob can be found online at jacobclifton.com, on Twitter, and on Facebook. IRL work appears in BenBella's SmartPop series of anthologies, and a novelette, "The Commonplace Book," appeared this fall on Tor.com.
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