GUNN: Fred?

FRED: (writing on the wall) P versus NP, where NP is nondeterministic polynomial time. This is NP. Lost time. Time spent.

GUNN: Never liked the paint in here. Yeah, let's—let's redo the place, really make it ours.

FRED: I-I was just... I couldn't sleep.

GUNN: Fred, demons, portals— that happens. Doesn't mean you're going back to Pylea.

FRED: Every time I close my eyes, I see it. Like it's happening all over again.

GUNN: I know, baby.

FRED: Five years of hiding in caves and scrounging for food, wearing that collar— You don't know. You couldn't.

GUNN: You're never going back to that place. You're safe now.

FRED: I was safe in the library 'til I opened that book and read those words and then—wham! I was hurling through dimensions.

GUNN: Come back to bed. All right? It'll all look different in the morning.

FRED: Morning? As in tomorrow, which as of now is today, which means—

GUNN: You're gonna talk to your professor friend just like you planned 'cause nothing has changed.

FRED: It has. He was there. He saw the— He probably thinks—

GUNN: That you're incredibly brilliant, just like I do.

FRED: He can't see me. Not like this.

GUNN: There's nothing wrong with you, like this or any other way.

FRED: Yeah, to you, maybe.

GUNN: Look, go, OK? Forget about this and talk about strings and W.I.M.P.s and whatever. Angel and I will take care of all the demony portal stuff. No problem.

• Gunn & Fred

written by: Elizabeth Craft & Sarah Fain; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited and formatted for this site by me.. Full transcript at:
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