Summary

Chapter 38 finds Kirsten and August leaving the house in the woods with the stuff they’ve collected, including the suitcases and the Starship Enterprise figure. They’re both surprised they found a house that hadn’t been looted. August mentions wanting to lock the door when he leaves. He figures that Sayid and Dieter remember carrying keys.

August talks about the multi-verse theory and parallel universes. He remember that some of the others weren’t sure what to think of the theory, but he figures that if there are an infinite number of universes, surely in one he became a physicist like he planned. August finds a picture of Miranda in one of the tabloids they took for the house and passes it to Kirsten. It’s from her trip to Toronto to visit Arthur just before the outbreak. Kirsten talks about...