>>117332410>I'm sure he'll make sure to explain why rick can't just get outRick doesn't want out.
He's interested in the energy source that powers the portals that people leave or get on the train with. Or something like that. He wants to stay on the train to find the power source, and the only way to do that is to check the cars and move to the one where the energy source is coming from, and he has to solve the cars quickly before they move to get to the source as quickly and safely as possible. He'd regard each car as childish and beneath him, but since he made no personal growth, his number would never change, while (if he came with) morty would continue to see how Rick's number goes down, while morty's goes down, morty would ask about it and rick would shoot a quick, snappy little come back, "it's a shallow view of morality and some sort of attempt to track personal growth." "Gee rick, if that's the case why is mine going down and your is going up?"
"It's because you're a little kid and you buy into this fake schmaltzy feel-good hallmark style morality BS." However, the more Morty questions Rick in his own mind, the more Morty's number goes down. Until it reaches zero when Morty realizes Rick is either unwilling or incapable of growth. At which point the portal opens, and Rick uses it to find the power source and steals it before Morty can step through and go home on his own. Rick would proclaim that was his plan all along because he knew the train would see his problem as being incapable of personal growth, "I knew that about myself I just don't care about growing!"
They both portal home and Rick learns nothing while Morty continues to further question Rick's intransigence with personal development.
Morty delivers a speech to Rick at the end (as rick is lasering or using some device to remove his number) while Morty ends with. "I think I know what the train wanted me to learn..." (CONT)
