"Then they'll have to take all of us in," he said. God, but this was crazy. He wasn't just listening to this story, but he was believing it, because no one would come up with this as a lie. It was simply too insane and incredible to be believable. If the boy wanted a plausible lie, he'd have come up with something simpler.
"So several time travels, artificial intelligence, machines taking over the world, have I missed anything?" Oh, talking to Hetty afterward was going to be a brand new experience. "I'm sure this is a much shortened version. We'll need names, anything you know, and we can see if we can track down any of the people involved in this." If there were any, they would have to keep a close eye on them, and possibly make the technology disappear as well.
"Now, we have no proof, and I'm sure we can narrow things down once you are debriefed, but it's unlikely that you come from the same dimension Hetty and I do." So now they'd have to worry about people from dimensions other than theirs. "We've both been involved in politics for so long and at levels that we would have heard about the technological advances that you're describing. Governments rarely aren't involved, even when they aren't officially involved. From what we've seen in this dimension, their experimentation seems aimed at something else entirely, and we'll make sure that it stays that way."
Now, they had another person to protect, the savior of some dimension where machines took over. And his wife thought politics was boring.. "This is what's going to happen. John will be registered as John Baum. That will be his official name even for ICIS. We'll take down that picture and we'll send a team to his home. Anything from the past gets destroyed. The police can investigate the home robbery and we have no connection to it. Tomorrow, the three of us will do a full debriefing, just us. We need the information, but it doesn't get recorded anywhere. For today, you get to meet the others, will do an evaluation with Mr. Callen and Mr. Hanna. Your father was in the military, that's why you are well trained. I am assuming from the gun you carry that you are well trained." He looked at Hetty. "He can't stay at the hotel alone." They couldn't put him in with the others, at least until they figured out any other differences that might exist between their dimensions. "You can stay with me for the time being. We'll find you something more permanent, but for now, that's the best we can do."