Oh, Kirk. You know how to pick 'em. And in this case, that's definitely meant in a good way. Olivia nods along with his suggestion without any look of perplexity or disbelief. "That makes sense. So then if when your friend went back to your home universe, and it was as if neither of you had been missing, then this place must exist outside of our own timelines."

Perfect sense. Clearly.

"Was he just... deposited right back where he was before he came here, then?" That someone managed to go home is a beacon of hope. But that they were also brought back tempers a lot of that.