[image description: the camera has zoomed in and panned left. this is a medium shot of the man in black standing in front of the squat metallic electronic device which he has just confirmed is a time machine, still with his back to us. “after all,” he says, continuing his monologue from the previous frame, “it is modeled on one i saw and used twice in the past… once to travel backward in time, and then again to return to my own time.”]
