"I... think we might be in a situation where that's not quite what's happening," he says slowly, carefully. He doesn't want Johnny to freak out more, because it'll make him freak too.

"As far as I can tell, this... this level of technology and action is unprecedented-- it's well beyond what anything ought to be capable of in my time. Which could, andpleasebearwithme, this could possibly suggest that we have been kidnapped by a, uh. Interdimensional. Being."

He feels a bit ridiculous for saying it, but like. Zombies are real. Why not.