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[The voice that comes over the tablets sounds calm and collected, masking the panic and fear of the woman speaking.]

I don't know who she was staying with, nor what unit she had been assigned, but if anybody has seen Emma Swan recently, I'd be glad to know. I can't seem to get in contact with her, and though I didn't know her well...

[She has to stop for a moment. It is so, so hard to force her voice not to crack, saying those words.]

Though I didn't know her well, she doesn't seem the type to purposefully make herself unavailable. I suspect she's returned to our home, but I thought it appropriate to inquire about her regardless. Thank you all.

[And then a pause.]

If someone told you about the future that awaits you back home, would you try to change it though it seems set in stone?

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I'm not explaining this right. [man he wishes Hiro were here. But since he isn't, Peter has to explain the best way he can]

Think of it like walking on a road. You reach a fork in the road, and you were planning on taking the right fork, but you meet someone who's been down that road. They tell you what happens if you keep walking, and instead you choose the left. But after a while you reach another fork and the same thing happens.

So it's a different choice each time. Your timeline continues in a straight path, but if you were looking at it from a distance you'd see all those forks you chose to take so you could change the path.

[Lightbulb!]

So they were separate decisions, not the same repeated over again. It must be nice to have had someone advising you like that.

It was a little frightening, to be honest. But I think it says a lot about free will. It tells me that the future can be changed minute by minute based on the choices you make.