"Just because we can't see it doesn't mean it's not there. Maybe it moves, maybe it's controlled by something and only appears to them at specific times. It doesn't matter. Whether or not we can find it, it's still there. What happens now?" Flick was a problem solver, the har people usually turned to for a logical, sane approach. At least here, even with a possibly unsolvable problem, now he didn't have to think about his own issues.