Quinn goes to his job and finds that he not only kissed Wade but has been fired for telling off his boss. When Quinn attends Professor Arturo's class the same day, the professor abruptly dismisses the class and admonishes Quinn for mocking his theories and calling him a "pompous windbag". He thinks he's going crazy but before he can process the differences, the timer hits zero and returns Quinn to his own world. Returning to his house, Quinn finds his mother married to the family's gardener and visibly pregnant. He turns on the car radio and learns about the "global cooling" debate, Americans crossing illegally into Mexico, and sees a billboard advertising Elvis Presley's upcoming concert in Las Vegas. Thinking his discovery a failure, Quinn drives away from his house to go to class, a trip that nearly turns fatal when he "runs" a green light (which means stop, not go, on that world). The next day, after setting the timer for fifteen minutes, he steps through the gateway and appears in his basement. When a basketball shoots back through, it confirms Quinn's decision to travel through the gateway himself. He's already sent various objects through and invented a bulky cell phone-like "timer" to retrieve them after a given period of time. In the family basement later that day, Quinn documents his attempts to find out where the gateway leads to. After class, he proceeds to his job at a computer store and talks briefly with his friend and fellow salesperson Wade Welles. The other students there, about a half-dozen, appear overwhelmed by Arturo's presentation on the "Dirac effect," but Quinn sits doodling the gateway he observed. He stops taping, rushes to eat breakfast, and hurries to his graduate physics class taught by Professor Maximillian Arturo. Playing back the previous night's experiment, Quinn reveals to the viewing audience that his equipment opened some type of transparent gateway. Mallory admits that he has failed in that, but he's stumbled upon something else. In a San Francisco basement, physics student Quinn Mallory tapes a diary entry documenting his latest efforts to perfect an antigravity device.
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