I feel like I need reassuring that this isn’t actually possible now!

Very well written, and the last few lines really made it – thrilling, morally ambiguous and intellectually stimulating – the thinking theologist’s ficlet eh? MH :)

That’s… more than slightly terrifying.

Only nitpick: if the italicized paragraphs are all one speaker, you don’t need the end ones at the end of each paragraph, just on the last one.

Definitely liking it… scary, and vaguely realistic, as hell, though.

“Only nitpick: if the italicized paragraphs are all one speaker, you don’t need the end ones at the end of each paragraph, just on the last one.”

Removed all quotes except top left (P1) and bottom right (P4)

Is that correct or does each paragraph begin with quote bot only P4 have end quote?

I have trouble with this and semicolons.

Grammar vexes me sorely.

Each paragraph would begin with a quotation mark. And semicolons are tough to wrestle with sometimes, no worries there.

Wow.. I incorporated time travel terrorism into my story too. Greatly executed, the end was funny! Great minds think alike? ;D