It's a funny thing, being able to travel through the power lines and appear at the other end. Gives a person all kinds of ideas. Naturally, Jerry's first idea was finding all the places he wasn't supposed to be. First it was his neighbors' houses, while they were out. Then government buildings while they were closed — first libraries and schools, then post offices and courthouses. Then, of course, it was banks. It's a funny thing, having to catch a criminal who treats any exposed wire as an escape hatch. Gives a person a terrible case of the nerves. What if I've left an outlet uncovered? What if I don't open the main breaker in time? But Detective Maron hadn't forgotten anything. When the criminal appeared in the vault in a shower of sparks, the detective threw a switch. Nothing appeared to change, but all the wires in the vault now went to just one place.

It's a funny thing, being trapped in a computer's logic gate. Just feeling the silicon boundaries hemming you in, sensing nothing but the quantum effects of loose electrons, wondering if anyone on the outside is ever going to switch it from AND to OR...