"Talkies. How exciting," Dirk answers flippantly before he realizes that Meyer is more or less serious. He looks over at him finally, eyebrows raised. "You're serious." That either means that Meyer is from the past, or an alternate dimension that is quite similar to his own universe's past. Either option is quite interesting.

"What year was it when you were taken?" In his head, he tries to remember when The Jazz Singer came out. "Sometime in the nineteen-twenties?"