PHILCO: I hate to be the first to tell you, but I have an internal dialogue. I think, and á la Descartes, that means I'm also not a mere stage prop!

VERONICA: YOU, Philco?! Of all people, you're the man I've been waiting for my whole life!

PHILCO: Yup. Looks like I'm just in time!

Once waves of energy have passed over them, the pair briefly experience life on the ocean floor...

...after which, even the blackness at the bottom of creation becomes invisible!

PHILCO: This is new and different! I'm tuned into some kind of vital, primal lifeforce..and I'm not alone!

LADYFISH?!

LIMPET?!