Desmond thought that talking to Ryan out in the street was probably not a suitable place to go over everything. While he appreciated the attempts that Mykel and Atlas had made to prove to him that The Echo was a real place, it hadn’t really done much to explain it to Ryan. There was a better way to go about this and Desmond thought that just talking to him about it would make it seem much more believable.

Ryan’s agreement to talk with him on the subject had Desmond’s ...