"You usually want to avoid cops," Clint says, and hesitates. He hasn't quite grasped that a culture could remember Carmen and Jane Austen, and forgotten WWII. But he's already been proven wrong on one thing about Oswin's world today. "Dictator, killed a few million people. Not the most of anybody, but he was... memorably horrible, and was a driving force in the war that shaped the world to be how it is now. Kind of known for being a likely target of hypothetical time travelers."

He crosses over to close his laptop down, and put it in his backpack, slung across the back of the seat. His go-bag duffel go-bag is already in the trunk.