Stanley, I hate to break it to you, but the people running this game show love relationships. They love them so much the place is practically a singles' cruise, even if you aren't single! Half the ship is romantically entangled with one another in a web of group marriages and swingers I can't keep track of, and that kind of thing can keep someone who goes a whole year without getting on the network around even through his severe, listless unsociability.

[Is that what actually happened to Quentin? Maybe not, but it's how Ford's connected the dots.]

Your best bet is going to be getting to know people. Especially now that you've made a fuss about not wanting to.

[A beat. Then, like he's presenting the last line of a mathematical proof:]

They make us kiss one another with magic mistletoe around the holidays.