"None of this makes sense." They hadn't been here before. There was a great big hole in the ground after all preventing them from coming here. He didn't have Wyatt's badge with him at the time and he doubts Malcolm carries his treasure trove of positivity with him everywhere he goes.

Maybe they belong here. He wouldn't be surprised if he was told he was, also, certifiably crazy. Much as he prefers to be the one to have his shit together.

"Best you return it to him, then." Doc respects that a man tells what he wants to tell in his own time. Whatever is in the novel, in all senses of the term, is not for him or anyone else to find.