"Um. No... I probably came from a place with the same name as yours, but a different world. We don't have people like you ... that I know of. I mean the Underground is a large place with gateways and portals everywhere. Uncle Merrick might know of your kind, but he likes researching really rare and strange anomalies." Weyland knows enough about portals in the Underground that's how he ended up a Time Regulator.

Well, that and his penchant for paperwork.