Well- you know what you said earlier about your dad... Not really being your dad?

[He's trying to figure out how to explain this.]

I've been through other portals before, I haven't been on my home world in five years now. The theory is that we go back to whatever time we were taken from, if we go home-

[It wasn't really a theory for him, Ed had seen it again and again.]

If it all adds up, Al's from my future. So he followed me through a portal that I- haven't been through yet, to another world. When he got here the me he found wasn't the me he was expecting.

I've been gone five years, but to him... I never went missing in the first place. Which, I guess means I make it home eventually.

[He doesn't sound too thrilled about that.]