"Is that what all this has been leading up to?" she asked. "The coincidences? The odd connections? Six people running across each other in order to quash some silly, escapist conspiracy?"
"It's not silly!" the Director objected.
"It is escapist," the Lab Coat Man admitted.
"What brought us here?" Julia asked. "To this lobby, at this time, facing off over something that seems like a weird dream?"
"Oh cripes," Denny said. "Don't get metaphysical on us."
"Mathematical innovations always seemed unreal at first —" Uncle
Justin began.
"The math doesn't matter. It never did," Julia said flatly. "It was all part of the same thing."
Justin's jaw opened and closed silently several times as he grasped a bench to keep himself vertical.
"What the heck is she getting at?" Ritchie asked Betty.
"I think you're over-thinking it, dear," Betty said to Julia.