- Jim Darcy: Who are you? Talk!
- Limbo Being: I am what you are, trapped in this limbo world between the present and the future. I am what you will be if you can not return to normal time at the instant of re-synchronization of a time rift you crated, and through which you were catapulted here. What has happened to you happened to me. I didn't get back.
- Jim Darcy: What DOES happen at the instant time catches up with us?
- Limbo Being: At that instant, since two lives entered here, there will be space for two lives to escape this time prison. That is my chance. I must not miss that chance.
- Jim Darcy: And you wanna take my place?
- Limbo Being: If you miss your chance to return one millionth of a second behind time, time will pass you by and leave you where I am now, in forever now. Black, motionless void. No light. No sun, no stars, no time. Eternal nothing! No hunger, no thirst. Only endless existence. And the worst of it, you can't die.
- [epilogue]
- Control Voice: Man is forever solving the most perplexing problems as he ventures ever further into the unknown, but where are the outer limits of his ingenuity? Will he ever encounter a problem, a Gordian knot, which he can not ultimately cut?
- [prologue]
- Control Voice: On the fabulous spawning grounds of Man's ever-increasing knowledge of science and technology, ancient half-forgotten legends seemingly have no place, except one: The Legend of the Gordian Knot - a knot so intricate and convoluted that no man could untie it, for there are problems so perplexing that they're seemingly impossible to solve when Man ventures to the outer limits of his experience.
- Jim Darcy: Why were you so fired up to hurry back here?
- Linda Darcy: Why did you agree so quickly?
- Jim Darcy: I don't know. Kind of a feeling, just a... premonition.
- Linda Darcy: So did I. So did I.
- Linda Darcy: What's happening? Your plane's up there and... you're in it.
- Jim Darcy: No. My plane's over here and I've crawled out of it.