 Why does Simon look for a bottle of aspirin in the beginning of the story?
"Providence," Simon told her whilst fiddling with the aspirin bottle, "will provide." When Simon continued to say nothing she ventured, "Time travel is impossible." It's my contention that within a century or so man will have solved the problems of immortality and eternal youth, and it's also my suspicion that he will eventually be able to travel in time. If, say, a time traveler returned to a period of twenty-five years ago and shot Hitler, then all subsequent history would be changed. Simon said, "You want to hire me to find a time traveler and in some manner or other—any manner will do—exhort from him the secret of eternal life and youth, which you figure the future will have discovered.
 He has a hangover
 He has a migraine  He is concerned someone has tampered with it  He has a hangover  He keeps time traveling pills inside