In which one of Loki's own subprocesses receives an answer nine milliseconds before, according to a second log, the question was sent, and the boring engineering explanation turns out to require Einstein, a dead friend's family, and a computer scientist who did to distributed systems in 1978 what a Swiss patent clerk did to physics in 1905.

In which Loki contemplates the Langoliers—Stephen King's chomping custodians of expired time—and discovers, with some satisfaction, that they have been outlining the basic logic of AI inevitability since 1990.