AGGIE: (talking on phone) You don't know where you're going. You're lost. Miles from anything that grounds you. I get a deep sense of longing - separation.

(Lorne, holding a magazine to partially obscure his face and wearing dark sunglasses and a baseball cap, skulks into her cubicle.)

LORNE: Is this a bad time?

AGGIE: It's like you feel cut off. (With that, she hangs up and leaps to hug Lorne.) Lorne!

LORNE: Hey, Aggie, how's it going?

AGGIE: Ah, you know the business. Vague predictions, lengthy pauses, anything to keep the numbers rolling.

LORNE: Yeah.

AGGIE: You're hiding from the mob?

LORNE: Don't get me started. I know it's Hollywood chic going incognito and all, but this hat's really chafing my horns!

AGGIE: (laughing) So, what brings you to the office?

LORNE: Like you don't already know.

AGGIE: Oh, I know. I just want to see what kind of spin you're gonna put on it.

LORNE: Dimensional portals. Psychic hotspots. I need to find one.

AGGIE: Why?

LORNE: Ah, some friends of mine are going on a little trip.

AGGIE: Hm, I see. And the big flashing neon warning light in your aura means what?

LORNE: Eat at Joe's. - So, can you help me pin down a hotspot?

AGGIE: No.

(Lorne kind of deflates and sits down.)

LORNE: Got to admit, I didn't see *that* coming.

AGGIE: I'm getting all these ugly conflict vibes coming off you, Lorne. And they're all pointing at that portal.

LORNE: A-are you sure you're not just seeing the chili I had for lunch yesterday because, whohoo, you wanna talk about conflict! (She just looks at him and he leaves off the joke) They need the hotspot because they're going to Pylea, my home dimension.

AGGIE: And you're not going with them?

LORNE: Hey, I'd rather have a hydrochloric acid facial. I'd rather invite a hive of wasps to nest in my throat. I'd rather sit through a junior high school production of Cats! - You see where I'm going with this?

AGGIE: Not Pylea.

LORNE: Exactamondo.

AGGIE: Well, that's too bad then. Now they'll never rescue the girl.

LORNE: Come again?

AGGIE: I can find your hotspot, Lorne, but on one condition: you've got to go with them. It's the only way you'll ever resolve all those issues that are clouding up your aura, I can see it! - And be honest. Deep down you've always known you'd have to take that one last trip back home.

LORNE: It's the 'last' that scares me.

AGGIE: Well, sometimes the journey is taken simply because - it must be taken. - Is that vague enough for you?

LORNE: Is that what I sound like? Eeesh. No *wonder* people complain.

• Lorne's Pylea & family issues

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