Shorty:
But that's not the question you should be asking yourself.
Michael Jennings:
No?
Shorty:
The question that you should be asking yourself is, why did *you* give up all that money? That's the most bizarre part of this whole thing. 90 million dollars. Nobody changes that much in three years! Okay. All right, buddy. I wanna figure out what you built. All right, let's work backwards.
Michael Jennings:
They told me that I was working on a design by someone named Decker.
Shorty:
Decker?
Michael Jennings:
Yeah.
Shorty:
William Decker?
Michael Jennings:
I think so.
Shorty:
What I heard was, he was working on something Level 5 for the Feds when they came in one day and they just shot him down.
Michael Jennings:
What was it?
Shorty:
Consensus was a laser.
Michael Jennings:
Why was that?
Shorty:
Because Decker's drawings called for a mirror and a lens. Now, the only thing that uses those things is a laser. Some kind of satellite...
[Jennings is distracted by a wall television announcing the Lotto numbers]

Shorty:
The lens required perfect optics. Uh, the mirror and the neutrino count... I mean, word was, the thing was going to cost 500 billion dollars. Now, who's going to spend 500 billion dollars just to see something?
[Shorty realizes Jennings has heard very little of his explanation]

Shorty:
What?
Michael Jennings:
There's no way I got out of that Extraction Room without the cigarettes and the glasses. I would have never gotten on that bus without the bus ticket. If I didn't have the diamond ring, I wouldn't have followed that kid to Reddy Grant.
Shorty:
Right.
Michael Jennings:
[excited]
I gave up that money just to make sure that I would pay attention to these items.
Shorty:
Why?
Michael Jennings:
[whispering intensely]
Because I know what you'd spend 500 billion dollars to see. The future.
[Astounded, Shorty looks at the winning Lotto numbers in Michael's hand, and then up at the TV]

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