Agent K: (A long pause) Have any specials?

 

Agent J: My associate will have the same thing he always has after he looks at the menu for 10 minutes and asks about specials twice. He's gonna have a slice of apple pie with a nasty piece of cheddar. I'm gonna have the strawberry-rhubarb. Since it's my last meal, I'm gonna splurge a little bit. World-class serial² killer³ out there and we're having pie.

 

Agent K: What do you do in your spare time, stretch? See, I sense you're not embracing the concept here. Pie don't work unless you let it.

 

Agent J: I'm gonna let it.

 

Agent K: And you say we don't talk, right? You go ahead. Ask me any question. Anything you want. As long as it doesn't have to do with the case. Just let her rip.

 

Agent J: What's up with you and O?

 

Agent K: Me and O?

 

Agent J: Yeah, you and O.

 

Agent K: All right, all right. All right, this is it. A while back, I was assigned to keep tabs on a musician. Mick Jagger? He's in this British band, the Rolling Stones.

 

Agent J: Rings a bell.

 

Agent K: We believed he was on the planet to breed with Earth women. So I was in London and that's when I met O. Just smart. Funny. A great smile. And we find ourselves in this pub, which is a bar, all right? Warm beer and the worst food you ever ate. We just played darts⁴ till the sun came up. Neither of us wanted to leave.

 

Agent J: What the hell happened to you, man?

 

Agent K: I don't know. It hasn't happened yet. Come on, what about you, slick? In the future, you got yourself a girl?

 

Agent J: I got you.

 

Man A: I cannot believe this, freaking New York Mets.

 

Man B: Total losers!

 

Agent K: It's a rough time to be a Mets fan.

 

Man B: Tell me about it. Never gonna catch the Cubs⁵.

 

Agent J: That's funny. The Mets actually win it all this year.

 

Agent K: Oh, yeah.

 

Agent J: No, I'm serious.

 

Agent K: I'm sure.

 

Agent J: Look, three months from now, your buddies⁶ down there are gonna be calling them the Amazing Mets and the Miracle...Mets.

 

Agent K: What? What you got there, hoss?

 

Agent J: The Archanan said, "it's amazing! It's a miracle! I'll see you at the game." I know where he is.

 

Agent K: Told you to trust the pie. If Griffin's here for a game, he's either too early or too late.

 

Agent J: He's here. We just gotta find him before Boris does.

 

Agent K: It's time to give you your things back, partner.

 

Agent J: I see you get some pie in you, you get all mushy.

 

Agent K: I'm just tired of carrying your stuff.

 

Griffin: Come on now! All right! Let's go, Mets! Let's go, Mets! Let's go, Mets! Let's go, Met--

 

Agent J: Griffin?

 

Griffin: Oh, you're just in time! Unless this is the one where Robinson bad-hops it past third, it's almost over.

 

Agent J: Are we missing something?

 

Griffin: The game.

 

Agent J: So this is how you see things? This is amazing.

 

Griffin: It's a gigantic pain in the ass¹. But it has its moments.

 

Agent J: This game doesn't happen till October.

 

Griffin: It's always October and November and March. So many futures⁷, and they are all real. Just don't know which one will coalesce⁸. Until then, they're all happening. Like this one, it's my favorite moment in human history. All the things that had to converge⁹ for the Mets to win the World Series. They were in last place every single season until they won it all.

 

Agent K: You said you had a gift for us.

 

Griffin: That baseball, for instance, thrown for the last out of game five, manufactured in 1962 by Spalding factory of Chicopee, Massachusetts, was aerodynamically flawed due to the horsehide being improperly¹⁰ tanned because Shiller, the tanner's wife, left him for a Puerto Rican golf pro--

 

Agent J: The gift?

 

Griffin: Oh, oh, oh, yes, of course. In the box. It's the surprise. To protect the Earth. It's a shield.

 

Agent K: Shield.

 

Agent J: Archanan. Arc Net. That’s what you did. You put up the Arc Net.

 

Agent K: How do I do that?

 

Griffin: When that ball is pitched to Davey Johnson who only became a baseball player because his father couldn't find a football to give him for his birthday. It hits his bat two micrometers too high, causing him to pop out to Cleon Jones who would've been born Clara, a statistical¹¹ typist, if his parents didn't have an extra glass of wine that night before going to bed. A miracle is what seems impossible but happens anyway. I lost my planet. I don't want you to lose yours. It'll take a miracle, but if you pull this off, you'll be my new favorite moment in human history. Oh, dear. I forgot to see this one coming.（Boris snatches Griffin away）

 

Agent J: Damn it!

 

Agent K: Get these in the future?

 

Agent J: No.

 

Agent K: Get on.

 

cheddar: 切达干酪

 

strawberry-rhubarb: 草莓大黄果酱馅饼

 

splurge: 挥霍，胡乱花钱。例：She splurged 30 thousand on a fur coat.（她花了三万元买了一件裘皮大衣。）

 

stretch: （为消除疲劳等的）散步

 

embrace: 领会，领悟到

 

keep tabs on: 监视；密切注意

 

rings a bell: 听起来耳熟

 

New York Mets: 纽约大都会队，美国棒球队，1969年以黑马之姿一举夺得总冠军。

 

mushy: 多情的

 

a gigantic pain in the ass: 让人极其讨厌。

 

coalesce: 联合，合成一体；合并

 

pull off: （成功或艰苦地）完成；赢得。例：Let's hope they can pull it off.（让我们期待他们能圆满成功吧。）

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