"Just have to hope for the best," Jack said. "There's really no solid indication of what we're dealing with yet, so that's probably good. Sufficiently advanced technology sure looks like magic, but it's still got an off switch." He seemed quite cheerful about the possibility. "We might get lucky. I've got a friend with a time machine and a built-in trouble magnet, so I'm expecting him to poke his head in at some point. Though soon is a relative term, huh."

He laughed. "The Head Doctor could use a comet in the face. Obnoxious asshole, isn't he?"