Update!
Madison and Lupinski had reported back that the two men watching Lane and Kent at the carnival had followed the reporters to the Kent farm.
I just had the oddest thought: What if those two goons where the young Stryker and Freeman, mistakenly identified as Trask's goons?
“Why all the complication of grabbing us ten years ago?”
Because it's more fun that way?
“I asked one of the Rokan-Shou scientists about it. His best guess was that at that time I was still ‘temporally disjointed’ enough from my exposure to a time storm and people from the future, that I would have been partially immune to any temporal changes in the event of a problem.
That works, too. I'd have thought the RS just responded that he/she/it now has a headache and to take your paradoxes to someone less logically inclined.
“As far as we know,” Westcott conceded, “but we do know that others have managed it, including your Mister Wells. Doctor Jackson believes…”
And I keep thinking Dr. Daniel Jackson
Michael