Blake announces that the government will keep the details to the case confidential, especially since the public is already ripe with rumors about Mortimer's mysterious disappearance.

Picking up a plot element from the story's beginning where two men were discussing their respective views of the past and future, Mortimer concludes the episode with a good-natured remark about how the future might see the 20th century as the true "good old times".

Jacobs' view of the future

Like many at the time, Jacobs imagined a future

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