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The decontamination room, the prep room, and the lounge were all, in fact, the same place. Shared by "all three" wards. Which by extension means that the "First Come, First Saved" segments couldn't have possibly been simultaneous at all. The Flowchart has them stacked, but I figured it wasn't...

...wait. The 13:30 votes truly are placed simultaneously on the chart. So that should've been a clue! But, wait, the 13:30 votes were all done from the lounges, so they couldn't have actually been done simultaneously either, if those were all the same lounge! Q wonders why they never bumped into each other, if at no other time than 13:30. They should've all been there then. Diana says it's because of the bracelets. She asks where Carlos's is. It fell off when his hand was cut off, but I get what she's saying. I considered the possibility that, just like in VLR when they were moving slower to disguise the effects of Radical-6, these bracelets were lying about the time...but I never would have guessed that the three teams' bracelets were not in sync with each other! Carlos has his, anyway. Diana asks him to check the time. His says 23:23. Q's says 21:23, as does Eric's. And Sigma's and Diana's say 19:23. Eric asks which one's the right time. Q says it's not important. That explains why the wake-up times were always either just past 18:00 or just past midnight! Each team had their own separate block of two hours, alternating. Thus, if C-Team's time is accurate, for example, it means Q-Team actually voted at 15:30 and D-Team at 17:30. Heh, nice touch; Gab's note does show the chronology. That's also the order the FCFS segments are stacked--C, then Q, then D. While one team was awake, the other two were sleeping inside the pods. Looking at the times, Diana realizes that she and Sigma will be put to sleep soon. Okay, I get it...well, this is D-Team's time, after all, and Q-Team was in the pods. Carlos is awake because his bracelet hand got chopped off. And Q says that if that's true, they'll forget everything that just happened. Diana takes them to the Transporter Room. By that schedule, Q-Team should already be asleep. Ah, they used the cards to stop the injection. They weren't manmade, so they're too strong for it. Is Eric's only purpose in this story to be the skeptic to all the weird shit that goes on? Brand new fragment for C-Team. "Get Back". It follows the segment we were just in. Eric recaps what we just learned--they were separated in time, not space. But that just makes him more suspicious of them, as it invalidates their alibis. Q agrees that it's one of them who killed Mira and Junpei. Eric suspects the D-Team duo, since they aren't even bound by the rules, being fakes. Eric tells them to turn it on, then. Sigma says they can't, and explains the ten-month recharge time. But Carlos recognizes that in this timeline, it hasn't been used. Eric's back to pointing the gun at Carlos, and references Akane's death. Carlos reiterates that that was the him that was originally in this history. He works out what happened, with them finding Junpei, Akane suspecting Carlos, and Carlos killing her in self-defense. Q pleads with Eric to put the gun down, and Carlos thinks to himself that Q's different to in the other history, and he thinks that that Q was a bit "off". Is he a different person? Eric wants to see the SHIFT. Carlos says he will, but first, he wants to see how the transporter works. She says it won't work for ten months, and Carlos says he knows; he just wants to know if they were to use it. He apologizes to Eric for making him wait. He says he has to save Akane and Junpei. Eric protests that they're already dead, and Carlos says that they are in this history, but not the other one. Eric says that he said the next time Carlos talked crap, he'd shoot him, and Carlos tells him to do it. Even if this body is destroyed, his consciousness won't die. And Eric shoots him. Back to the all-ones timeline.
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