- Kiera Cameron: I know you don't have all the answers you're looking for right now, but if you don't follow the path of destiny that shapes the future as I know it, the world won't end up as it did in my time.
- Alec Sadler: Is that necessarily a bad thing?
- Kiera Cameron: I want to go home. I want to get back to my family. And the only way I'm gonna be able to do that is if things stay on track.
- Alec Sadler: Kiera, when you tried to stop that bombing, did you know that you were possibly throwing away a chance of getting home?
- Kiera Cameron: I didn't have a choice.
- Alec Sadler: Yes, you did.
- Kiera Cameron: Choose to let hundreds of innocent people die?
- Alec Sadler: Don't be so naive. These decisions are gonna keep coming up. At a certain point, you're gonna have to choose between protecting the future for your unborn family or protecting the future for yourself and those of us who are alive now.
- Manager Duncan: Sadler, do you have any idea why all of the network passwords aren't working?
- Alec Sadler: Oh, yeah, sorry, I forgot to tell you about that. Um, I had to flash the router with OpenWRT in order to put up a new firewall.
- Manager Duncan: And, why did you do that?
- Alec Sadler: Well, um, actually you'll be happy to know that I recalibrated the network so that 46% of the customers can now use the automated checkout system. That'll save on labor costs by 15% and decrease customer wait times by a minute and 30 seconds on average.
- Manager Duncan: Is that right.
- Alec Sadler: Yeah, and you don't have to do sales reports anymore; it's all automated now.
- Manager Duncan: No... sales reports.
- Alec Sadler: Nope, poof, gone! Straight to head office. In fact, the efficiency of the system as a whole is nearly tripled; it's 256% to be exact.
- Manager Duncan: Okay. Sadler, here's what's gonna happen: first, you're gonna get me a coffee; then you're going to undo all this mumbo jumbo. None of this was even approved by head office.
- Alec Sadler: This'll save the company money!
- Manager Duncan: [patronizing] Look, I know what it's like to be young and ambitious and think I have the answers to everything, but you can't go messing with the system because you think you have a better way of doing things.
- Alec Sadler: But I'm telling you...
- Manager Duncan: [firmly] No look, I'm telling you to reset the network to the way that it was and do the job that I hired you to do! I can un-hire you just as easily. Oh, and that coffee? Make it black.
- Matthew Kellog: Incredible.
- Alec Sadler: What do you want?
- Matthew Kellog: You know who I am? Right. Well, believe it or not, I know a little bit about who you are as well. Maybe even more than you know about yourself.
- Alec Sadler: Look, if Kiera sent you here to talk me into whatever...
- Matthew Kellog: No, Kiera didn't send me. You know I- I had a job like this, once, way back - or is that "way forward"? - mopping floors and cleaning toilets. Good, honest work my father called it. I hated that job but I guess it did teach me something.
- Alec Sadler: What's that?
- Matthew Kellog: Well, first off, money and power doesn't mean your shit doesn't stink. More importantly, the only thing separating me and the future I wanted was will. I had the talent and the ambition, all I needed was a chance. The problem is, of course, you're rarely given that chance; more often than not you've got to take it. So one day, on my knees cleaning up where some idiot had missed with his piss, I did.
- Alec Sadler: And what did you do?
- Matthew Kellog: I quit. I scratched and clawed and willed myself into my own business. I put all that hard work into Kellog Incorporated.
- Alec Sadler: And here you are today... you've come a long way.
- Matthew Kellog: That's one way to put it.
- Alec Sadler: Look, what does any of this have to do with me?
- Matthew Kellog: Oh, I don't know. Let's just say that both of our futures rely on your own will. All you have to do is, is look down and realize...
- Matthew Kellog: [whispering] that you're on your knees too.
- Matthew Kellog: Only difference is, you're... a... genius. Anyway, listen, I'm uh, I'm lookin' to set up a new venture, cutting edge stuff. Also looking for talented visionaries to do visionary work. You know, mold the future, all that jazz. Hey, money is no object.
- Manager Duncan: Uh, are you being taken care of, sir?
- Matthew Kellog: Why yes, thank you. Alec here is taking very good care of me. He knows his stuff! You know something, I'd be careful if I were you. 'Cause someone might just, uh, just come along and... and poach him away.
- Manager Duncan: Wonderful. Uh, have a... good day sir. Um, Alec, uh, when you're done with this customer, can you drop by my office? My printer's jammed.
- Matthew Kellog: Printer jams. How novel. You know there's no paper in the future? Or should I say, "no future in paper"?
- [Kellog offers Alec a business card. Alec takes it]
- Matthew Kellog: Drop by for a chat unless you've made up your mind. In-credible.