James D'Arcy credited as playing...
Mr. Zimit
- [Mr. Zimit just announced to the class that they'll conduct a final big thought experiment, about survival during a global cataclysm]
- Chips: But what kind of cataclysm are we talking about? Gamma ray burst? Pandemic? Erupting super volcano? A sudden shift in the Earth's axis rotation? Grey goo?
- Mr. Zimit: Hang on, Chips, we'll get there.
- Chips: But is it biological? Geological? Thermo-nuclear? Meteorological?
- Mr. Zimit: Let's go old school. Say... atomic.
- Mr. Zimit: The good news is, although we're about to part ways: Not one of you leaves here lacking the credentials to thrive in the world. You're all well-equipped to push on to university and become happy energetic members of a post-industrial twenty-first century society. On the other hand: what if that society ceases to exist? What if your credentials don't mean what you expected, and your expectations mean nothing at all? I know it's hard to conceive of everything you've based your plans on being wiped away at a single stroke; but it's happened before and it can happen again... So let's say things do change. I propose one last "Gedankenexperiment", a final thought experiment, for our final session together. Something on a grand scale, something juicy. Let's envision... a global cataclysm. In the event of which: how do you survive?
- Jack: Uhmm... the last day of the year is, you know, traditionally sort of a chill experience for seniors. This is starting to feel not-so-chill.