(Angel and Lorne enter Gene's lab.)

ANGEL: Hey, we're looking for Gene Rainy?

MIKE: So am I. Somebody took his equipment.

ANGEL: What equipment?

MIKE: Particle accelerators, propulsion batteries ... (sees Lorne) What's that?

ANGEL: Don't worry. It's just the new school mascot.

MIKE: For the Buccaneers?

LORNE: Not your school, silly.

ANGEL: Do you know what Gene Rainy was working on?

MIKE: Uh. Time paradox. Accelerate specific particles out of our continuum into their own excised universe.

ANGEL: Come again?

LORNE: Stopping time.

MIKE: Which is impossible by the way. No one can do the math. Does anybody listen to me? No. He gets the grants. I get carpet mold.

( The following lines to the end of the scene are actually voice overs during Gene's equipment setup. )

ANGEL: (voice over) All right. Lets say he could do it. Lets say you could stop time. How would it work?

MIKE: (voice over) Well, you know, according to his speculations you focus the accelerators on a specific point, and if you can generate the correct velocity, whatever's in that field would just be removed.

ANGEL: (voice over) Removed.

MIKE: (voice over) From our reality.

LORNE: (v.o.) What happens to it?

MIKE: (v.o.) Nothing. In the absolute sense of that word. Whatever is in the field would stand still forever in its own private universe.

LORNE: Say, someone, just for fun, were to crank this into overdrive.

MIKE: If the field were improperly contained it would spill out, keep growing, stop everything. Kind of wiggy, huh?

ANGEL: Who has the keys to this place?

MIKE: Only Gene. Even the maintenance guys can only come in when he's here.

LORNE: No forced entry.

MIKE: Why would Gene take his own equipment?

ANGEL: The question is *where* would Gene take his own equipment.

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