"I'm going to hold you to that," Hughes says over a sip of his coffee. "And I tend to remember everything I'm told, so you better make sure you have it ready for your next visit." Not that Hughes would be upset if Jack wasn't ready, but hey, a grown man who's basically still a kid sometimes can dream.

One of Hughes' eyebrows creeps up toward his hairline at the mention of time travel. "How do you become a fugitive if you could just go back and change what happened that made you a fugitive?" There's some subtlety here that the intelligence officer isn't understanding just yet. Time travel's a subject he doesn't know much about, so he's pretty much pulling at straw trying to figure out how something like Jack is describing could happen.