Mark turned out to be newscaster in the future, and Regina told him all about it. Apparently, in the future, there was something called the program—meaning that, you could watch tv programs that came from outer space that were not created by humans. They were a part of the universe—a universe that enforced physical laws, and, if you were good, entertained you, too. Basically these newspeople that got channeled in from some unknown place in the universe reported how things were going in your community, which amounted to your family once you were in heaven—if you can call it that. I say that because you and your family had to read or write or study something from time to time to maintain order and balance in the universe.
If you didn’t, then the program would expand—and you’d be dealing with real holograms that might and might not have been human, but, if you touched them, they could touch you back—and, basically, what they’d do is read your thoughts and respond, in kind, with unhappy thoughts—thoughts of people suffering or meaning to do you harm, that, if you weren’t careful, could, and would, do you harm. It is not clear if you became more like them or they became more like you when you reached a point where you could touch each other, but these enforcers, as they were called, could really make your life miserable if you didn’t dedicate a portion of your day to learning something.
Regina later learned that the spirits that contacted you were in part composed of your DNA—and they could morph, as time went on—and your understanding of reality advanced—into your father or your brother. That happened because nothing in the future was decided yet, not even the composition of your family. Your father or brother, then, could still be, in part, your father and your brother, but if you or they were going in a different direction than the future that everybody that was learning something decided upon, then you could find yourself with someone that was like them, but was different, based on the future that you imagined you wanted, which, sometimes, could differ from the program, and the future the program wanted.
So the fact that, in the future, Mark McCord was a newscaster, could’ve meant several things, and not all of them were good. Regina could’ve been drifting away from Mark, and the person, on TV, that looked kind of like Mark but a little different, would change along with Regina, until they were no longer related—or until the real Mark morphed into someone else—someone that Regina, eventually, would or would not forget. If, for example, the real Mark had been slacking, then, a good thing, for example, would be the realization that much of your time with that Mark hadn’t been real, and the person you were going to, that wanted the same things out of the program that you did, would be somewhat like Mark, but you would find that you had new memories that replaced Mark, and so you’d be left wondering if you or that Mark, at those moments, even existed. The main difference about heaven and or the future was that everything, past, present, and future, was subject to change if somebody tried to opt out of the program. If, and when, they did, then you were forced to remember different things, and you realized, that, in fact, you’d been with someone better all along. Someone, for example, that wouldn’t try and take over your life from the future—or some adjunct point in the spacetime continuum that amounted to a path to an inferior universe, if, that is, you even existed, which, by the time the transformation had taken place, the old you, or parts of you, necessarily didn’t.