[ he's not the looper. he doesn't know how loops work, barely knows when they happen now, but there's enough familiarity that he can grasp what they're saying.

"fate." just another word that bothers him, but he doesn't say so right at the moment. ]

But then there has to be a way to break the loop, doesn't there? Once you fulfill the right criteria that's causing it in the first place. If you get to an end and it restarts, it just means there's something else that was missed for the whole picture. I think.