"You smell that?" Lydia asked Max as they walked out of the court house, stopping to take a deep breath. "That's the smell of freedom."

"Oh, please." Max rolled her eyes in response to Lydia's statement. "If you start re-enacting 'Braveheart' I might have to ask them to research your stuff."

Lydia stuck out her tongue at Max and pulled out her phone. "You tell Alex and Crysta where the courthouse is?"

"Uh…no. I said that we'd meet them over at 30 Rock."

"Are you nuts!?" Lydia exclaimed, looking at Max like she'd sprouted a second head. "If the cops see us there they'll haul us right back here. And I don't think the judge will be so nice next time. We were lucky enough that he only made us pay a fine since there weren't any priors."

"Oh…yeah that is true."

"Besides, I don't want to push our luck." Lydia flipped open her phone and hit speed-dial. "I'm calling them to pick us up."

"Ok, but if Jack McCoy shows up with Ed Greene and Nina Cassady I'm outta here."

"…You do know that they're just fictional characters." Lydia said as she waited for Crysta to pick up her phone.

"Duh."

"Just checking."

It didn't take long for Crysta and Alex to pick up Max and Lydia and in no time they were headed towards the highway.

"So did you watch Conan last night?" Max asked as they reached the city limits.

Crysta and Alex broke into grins and nodded.

"And…"

"And what?" Crysta innocently asked as she signaled and pulled onto the on-ramp.

"Did they show Lydia's 'magic brownie' moment?"

"Why would they do that?" Alex asked, while casting Crysta a knowing look.

"Because I know that since Bruce was the last guest before the music act they wouldn't of had time to do it all over again." Max replied in a 'matter of fact' tone. "So did they?"

"Yes they did, although they cut some stuff out…and it was even more funny the second time around." Crysta admitted while Alex gave a snort.

"What stuff did they cut out?"

"Uh…the part where she said that she wanted to eat Conan's tie-"

"No they kept that in; it was the part where she said that she wanted to have Bruce-lets that they cut out." Alex countered, interrupting Crysta.

"Whatever. Either way it was hilarious."

"You didn't get a copy of it did you?" Lydia asked, cringing.

"Unfortunately no." Crysta sighed, disappointed.

"Damn, there's goes any chance of sending a copy of McKay." Max replied, disappointed as well.

"Oh well." Lydia said, pretending to be upset while relieved. Then a realization hit her. "Aw...damn it." She muttered.

"What?" Alex asked.

"I just remembered I set up the VCR to record last nights 'Conan'."

"YES!" Max exclaimed, bursting into a grin. "I'm so transferring it to DVD."

"Do and you're dead." Lydia threatened while glaring at Max.

"Hey, wait to threaten Max until we've crossed state lines." Crysta said, stealing a glance in the mirror.

Max smirked and stuck her tongue out at Lydia who just narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms, pouting.

They drove in relative silence until all of a sudden cell phones went off. Crysta, Alex, and Lydia picked theirs up while Max was left wondering what was going on.

"They did what? When?"

"How did they manage to do that? You're kidding right?"

"No way."

"Well we're still in New York State so yeah it's gonna take us a while to get back."

"So we have to repack it all? Great, that'll take us forever. No…I'll start when we get back. Just make a list of everything we need."

Alex was the last one to get off the phone and looked at the others who, except for Max, were all grinning. "I take it that we all got the same phone call."

"What's going on?" Max asked, wondering what the hell was going on.

Lydia and Alex turned to look at Max with mild surprise on their faces. "You're kidding right?" Lydia asked, raising an eyebrow.

"No…what happened?"

"War and Peace version or Cliff Notes?"

"Cliff Notes please."

"We're all going back to Atlantis." Lydia said, breaking into a grin.

Max bit her lip, not sure she wanted to burst their bubble.

Alex noticed the lack of Max's excitement and asked, "Aren't you glad?"

"Well…not really."

"Why?" Lydia asked, raising an eyebrow. "You loved teaching the Athosian kids."

"Sure I did, but I...didn't get a phone call." Max replied.

The silence was deafening with the girls realizing what that meant.