Mike Milligan, Ben Schmidt and others in “Unfinished Business”

Mike Milligan

There's a man.

What - what man?

Mike Milligan

Just a man. He works in a factory. One day, the boss gets it in his mind that this man is stealing from him. So, every night at the gate, the guards search his wheelbarrow. But they never find anything.

Pat him down.

Mike Milligan

Oh, they do that. Strip him naked - nothin'.

So he's not stealin'.

Mike Milligan

Of course he is.

Lou Solverson

Wheelbarrows.

Mike Milligan

Thank you. That's right. He's stealing wheelbarrows.

What?

Mike Milligan

My point is sometimes the answer is so obvious you can't see it because you're looking too hard. See, we can't leave because we're the future, and they're the past. The past can no more become the future than the future can become the past.