He nods quickly. It's the worst case scenario he was thinking of, too. They can't control who shows up here. What might be acceptable to the majority of the people in this little town now could easily change as the population changes. "No, not everybody in this place is from the future. And I don't want him telling anyone either. I just think..."

He frowns, shaking his head. "Threats won't help us here, if they're too obvious. That's what I don't get about this guy--" he means Ned, of course "--he's so naive in some ways. He could sit there and act like it was all completely acceptable. A threat's going to baffle him. We can be more subtle than that."