Mistakes were made. Though if we are being honest, the terrier should share at least some of the blame.

Greg is a PLC programmer and an accidental time traveller. His machine has seventeen safety interlocks and one automated NULL loop that keeps the universe from collapsing. It takes 2.3 seconds. Last Tuesday, someone skipped it.

Now the indicator light is a shade of mauve best described as 'bureaucratically unhelpful,' and a wire-haired terrier last seen at the Moulin Rouge in 1893 is sitting in the workshop, calmly reading a transmission broadcast from inside a black hole - stamped with Greg's own biometric signature.

Deadpan science-fiction comedy with real physics underneath: vacuum decay, the Fermi paradox, cold tea, and a wife who was right about the checklist.

Do not touch the override.