Carter nods, still battling with his emotions but it helps, not having the magic debate right now. He'd probably start yelling or crying or stomping his foot and he absolutely doesn't want to lose it like that. It's not Benton's fault that his emotions are running high. And it's not Benton's fault that he looks rationally at all this. The way Carter would have looked at this a few weeks ago. If their roles were reversed, Carter would have probably tried to coax him into an exam as well. ... Maybe a little gentler.

He looks around, feeling weary all of a sudden.

"Everyone who lived here is gone. We don't know how or why. But it's only people like you and me in town. Who ended up here somehow."

People mostly from the future is what he doesn't say because he's still trying to calm down. The debate they're gonna have at the house is going to be a disaster anyway.

"You're the first person from-- home I've met."