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Dev, slowly.
- DEVWait.
- DEVWait wait wait.
- DEVIf the timeline recomposed —
- DEVThen we shouldn't remember our timeline.
- DEVWe shouldn't remember the Spire.
- DEVWe shouldn't remember the Quiet Grid.
- DEVWe should just remember… this one.
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Alex, nodding. This is a question he was hoping for. He likes Dev.
- ALEXYou're right, Dev.
- ALEXFor anyone else on the planet — the old timeline is gone. They have always lived in this one. They have no memory of the other.
- ALEXBut the chord-jumpers — you, Dev — anybody who has traveled through a portal — your memory is anchored to the timeline you came from.
- ALEXThat's the price of the trick. You see what nobody else can see.
- ALEXThat is what makes you the resistance even when there's no longer anything to resist.
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Jesse, processing.
- JESSE…So Mom.
- JESSEIn this timeline.
- JESSEMom never lost her husband.
- ALEXNo.
- JESSEShe never watched her sons cry in their sleep for sixteen years.
- ALEXNo.
- JESSEBut the Mom we know — the one in our 2260 —
- ALEXIs still there.
- ALEXShe's in the kitchen on Vargas Drive.
- ALEXShe's been there the whole time.
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Long beat. Allred — Jesse processing. His face. The realization that the mother he left behind is still in the bad timeline — and that the dad he just found is not the dad who would be waiting for her at home if they brought him.
- JESSEDad.
- JESSEWe have to go back.
- JESSEMom is alone.
- JESSEWe left her this morning.