Daisy, Deke and others in “Unfinished Business”

Daisy

That's what I'm worried about. The butterfly effect. Just us being here, walking down the street, we could've already changed the course of events.

Deke

Yeah, the butterfly effect is just one aspect of the multiverse branch theory. Personally, I subscribe to the Time-Stream idea.

Mack

Let me guess. That's the one that lets you do whatever you want.

Deke

Okay. Imagine time as a stream, right? And we were sticks that were thrown into it. The water, it... it moves us... it moves around us.

But it ends up in the same place.

Deke

Right. Now, too many sticks thrown in and that will create what's called a dam, and... and that'll change the direction of the water forever, and that's bad. So as long as we can avoid that, we should be able to splash around a little bit and we're all good.

Mack

Okay, I know where this is going. Agent Shaw, you will not be filing any patents. Is that understood?