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...Sonny.
We did this of our own volition.
I don't get it, Doc Moore... who are you talking for here?
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Message.
I received a message, one that is different from that previous ones.
Hngh...
Does your head hurt again, Joyce?
There is nothing wrong with me physically, Dr. Silence.
Detecting unexpected data transmission. Processing.
Data?
Yes... Sonny, we all know...
This is... a gamble.
The results are... unpredictable. But this was our choice.
Data transmission terminated. Analysis indicates that Sonny is the intended recipient.
Doc Moore, you're talking like one of our... no, one of the test subjects lying there.
Hypothesis cannot be confirmed.
The source of the data is unknown. I simply sensed it.
Doc Silence, is she right? Doc Moore can hear my friends?!
Joyce, was your use of the word 'sense' intentional?
Yes, Dr. Silence.
The content of the dream has changed.
What did you see?
Analysis failed.
Your eyes look different... are you feeling sad?
Detecting signal fluctuations in peripheral system.
...Della.
Dellareed? Are you thinking of her again? Does Device #9 have something to do with Director Franks's experiments?
Motive, emotion, not logical connections.
Dr. Silence, I sense that this was our own choice.
Your own choice?
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Sonny, if I guarantee that I will do all that can be done to correct the wrongs, will you let Dorothy Franks go?
Listen, Doc Silence, we appreciate your help getting us here, and that you got us to the truth about the experiments.
We can definitely believe you're on our side.
But can you really be sure she won't start it all back up again?
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No, I can't.
But if she does, I will handle her for you.
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Whew... the experiments have been suspended, Dorothy is unharmed, and the test subjects are regaining consciousness.
I still find all this hard to believe.
There is no cause for alarm. Emotional fluctuations are normal.
You woke up just in time, Joyce.
I've never seen Olivia that angry... I thought she would just leave Dorothy to her own devices.
But I still don't understand how you heard the voices of the test subjects.
Their consciousnesses were linked by Dorothy's 'Hub', but how did you get involved?
Didn't you say Device #9 had nothing to do with the 'Hub'?
Insufficient data available.
But I heard the voice of Mr. Myers when I woke up from my dream.
When you woke up...
The conflict in the corridor? Why would that wake you, when the battle before didn't?
This is all so strange...
Anyway, I guess all's well that ends well. Thanks to Olivia.
Dr. Silence has met expectations.
She's changed so much, come to think of it.
When I first met her, she was just one of many students you'd see on a college campus, shy, introverted, unremarkable.
This description matches my memory.
I could hardly recognize her when she was pressing Dorothy for answers, only to step in to protect her.
It was like I saw... a shadow of someone else.
That of Director Saria?
H-How did you know?
Don't tell Olivia I said that!
Dr. Silence won't let this affect her friendship with you.
I know.
But as her friend, I don't want to remind her of her unpleasant past.
Understood.
Let's go. I should finish my job too.
Communications have yet to be restored... not good. The boss...
And my sister... how many messages have I been getting?
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Please come with me, Director Franks. It's time to leave.
One moment, please.
With the experiments halted, they will wipe this lab off the map.
There's something I have to take with me.
It's... a photo?
Yes.
A photo of a group of Pioneers...
Is this girl... you?
I meant every word I said to Sonny.
My mother, my whole family... they were all Pioneers.
From a young age I heard them talk about their dreams and saw their struggles with my own eyes.
They gave me a chance to chase my own dreams.
But most Pioneers will never know the luck that came to me.
What happened to your family?
Most of them have left me.
When I was invited to attend Ironforge Polytechnic's summer camp for 'talented students'...
A Catastrophe destroyed my mother's camp.
She never heard about my miraculous acceptance, or my scholarship.
I'm sorry...
Was it really the right choice to stop these experiments?
Those Pioneers, those whose lives hang by a thread, they live each day not knowing if they'll see the next.
I could have helped them...
They didn't have to be swallowed up by the sand in despair, like my family was.
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Why do you ask this, Silence?
Without our experiments, the child would not have lasted more than a few days after leaving Haydn 1.
We saved her life. She wants for nothing, and will contribute to scientific advancement.
How lucky is she, compared to all those children who die of Oripathy in the barrenlands?
I trusted you, put you in charge of her. Yet you make such petty accusations towards me, towards science itself?
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I don't know.
This is not a question for me to answer.
Joyce reminded me...
I should not judge things by my own standards, even if I can never accept what you did.
Did we not choose to be tormented by uncertainty and self-doubt?
As researchers, it's our duty to seek the answer ourselves.
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Is everything ready?
Our team has entered the site and is approaching the lab area.
Good. Get ready.
Colonel, I know there have been delays, but if you give me a little more time...
You never told me there were other people at the site, Clooney.
Do you mean the pharmaceutical company?
There's nothing to worry about. They're partnered with Rhine Lab. I will...
I don't need your promises.
All I need here is results.
I apologize. This is just a small hiccup...
If you can't deliver results, then you have to at least stop making trouble for me.
You'd do well to remember that.
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Can we proceed, Director Clooney?
We don't have a choice.
Understood.
One more thing.
Put me on spec com.
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Huh... communications have been restored?
Elena.
Director?
I'm so glad it's you. I've been trying to reach you... did you get my message? I put everything that happened here in my report.
Something's wrong with Dorothy... Director Franks's experiments. But Silence and I have things under control.
We've settled things with the Pioneers. They're leaving the labs as we speak.
I know.
You... you do? Oh wow...
You did your job. The cleanup detail is on the way in.
Defense? They're finally here?
Whew, that's a relief. I was worried about the Transmitter we've been storing here.
They know what to do. You can leave now.
I should stay and help. Next to Dorothy, I'm the most familiar with these experiments.
I'm at the observation station, Elena. Two directors are more than enough to handle the situation, don't you agree?
Er, that's not what I meant...
Then listen to me and leave the site immediately.
May I ask why?
No, you may not waste my time with meaningless questions. I want you in the control room, now.
Yes... sir.
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Is there a problem, Researcher Urbica?
The director... Ferdinand wants me to leave immediately.
Leave?
Go and let Olivia know that the Defense Section is coming.
What about you? Are you leaving?
I... something's not right with the director. If... if he didn't know how far Dorothy went, why is he completely unconcerned about what happened to the experiments?
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Is everybody out?
Yes, sir.
Next.
What are they doing?
They say it's a 'precautionary measure'. Probably a sedative or something.
I guess we made a little too much noise, huh?
Don't forget what I said. If anyone asks, I was the one behind everything.
Don't worry, no one's letting you take all the credit.
But...
Next.
Sonny Romano.
Wasn't asking for your name.
Tell your leader that I take sole responsibility for the kidnapping.
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Right hand.
Are you gonna get to it after the injection?
What the...? Doc Urbica? Why'd you push me?
Don't take the shot!
You're interfering with our work, researcher.
I developed that stuff in that syringe.
Need me to explain what it's for?
Huh? Aren't they with you and Doc Silence?
Why do you always doubt the people you should trust, when you're so eager to trust people you should doubt?
Take that band off, quick!
The treatment wristband?
I remembered why Joyce woke up when I saw the syringes in their hands!
It's this—the treatment bands!
The ones you got have been modified. There's a sensor on them similar to the equipment in Dorothy's lab. If it comes into contact with Transmitter...
I need to report to the director. Someone is behind all this, using... using...
Dammit, communications are down again?
What's the matter?
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I... I get it now.
All this time...
Doc Urbica, are you okay? Are you crying?
Crying? No, I just...
It's not important.
This isn't over, Sonny. Dorothy was never your enemy!
