Seems like it. Probably more to it than that, there always is. [His tone switches subtly from flippant to irate.] Everything has to have SOME connection to everything. Because it can never be 'huh this mystery will never be solved'. It gets dragged kicking and screaming right into your face later on and you debate finding your past self so you can just kick him in the teeth.

Or have a mutually assisted moment of slapping each other upside the head so hard you see stars for being completely stupid. 'This is going to come back and bite you in the ASS, son how did you miss this??'

And like idiots, people are investigating the circles and shit they left behind. Like that won't end badly. [And we're back to flippant.]