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From: PEARLTAPE TDY TITAN <pearltape@sec.titan.org>
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Subject: PEARLTAPE//TRANSCRIPT/OBINT/DEBR/0274/1
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Date: 19 Sep 2421 00:38:19 +0000
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Date-Local: 19 Sep 2421 00:38:19 +0000
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X-Classification-Marking: TS/PEARLTAPE/EYES ONLY ALLIANCE
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X-Catalogue-Serial: PEARLTAPE//TRANSCRIPT/OBINT/DEBR/0274/1
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8"
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TOP SECRET PEARLTAPE
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HANDLE VIA QUILL CHANNELS ONLY
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PEARLTAPE//TRANSCRIPT/OBINT/DEBR/0274/1
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FULL CATALOGUING DATA FOLLOWS
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TRANSCRIPT BEGINS
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[Subject NINE is asleep or unconscious. Subject LEE sits in a chair
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at her left side, apparently dozing.]
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NINE: [INDISTINCT]
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[Subject NINE coughs. Subject LEE startles slightly and sits up.]
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LEE: Oh, chérie, welcome back! Here, sip this -
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[Subject LEE holds a cup of water for subject NINE. Subject NINE
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takes the straw and drinks, then coughs.]
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LEE: Easy.
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NINE: [INDISTINCT] better, thank you - Sameen? What are you doing
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here?
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[Subject NINE looks around.]
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NINE: What am I doing here? Where are we? What's happened?
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LEE: We're on Titan, and you're safe. What do you remember?
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[Subject NINE delays answer, apparently considering the question.]
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NINE: I was in my crash couch. We all were. They were going to
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shoot at us any second, and I was so scared. I was sure every
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second that - then I felt the ship turn hard, and then a second
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later something hit us. My couch must have broken, I felt myself
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spinning, and then -
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[Subject NINE considers.]
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NINE: Just flashes, and then I woke up here.
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LEE: That was three days ago.
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NINE: Three days? But why didn't they -
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LEE: After the captain sent his last report to Luna Lines, their
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military liaison messaged Ambassador Vasu here on Titan. She talked
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to Ambassador Branislav, and then they went and talked to - oh,
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it's a long story, but they figured out where your ship was, and
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And Yet It Moves got to you just barely in time.
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NINE: The Titan ship?
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LEE: The same. They shot down Kearsarge's first missile before it
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fused, and there was no second one. But the missile was so close
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that some of the debris still hit you.
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NINE: Oh.
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LEE: Your couch didn't break. They say it saved your life. But -
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NINE: I know that look. Sameen, just tell me.
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LEE: Amelia, can you feel your foot? Your left foot. Can you move it?
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NINE: Sure, I -
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[Subject NINE looks down at the bed, observing her injury. (L leg
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traumatic amputation distal to knee, full details in med report,
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file ref PEARLTAPE/DEBR/79) Psychometric overlay indicates response
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within error bars.]
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NINE: Oh.
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NINE: Oh shit.
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[Subject NINE begins to cry. Subject LEE leans over the bed to hug
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subject NINE.]
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LEE: [INDISTINCT] going to be okay. You're [INDISTINCT].
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NINE: [INDISTINCT]
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LEE: I - let me call in the nurse, and -
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NINE: No! I need to -
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[Subject NINE shakes off subject LEE, wipes her eyes, and grasps
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the bedsheet. Subject LEE places her hand atop subject NINE's.]
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LEE: Lia, please. Let me help, at least.
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[Subject LEE helps subject NINE into a sitting position against the
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headboard, then pulls aside the sheet, exposing subject NINE's hip
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and unbandaged left leg.]
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NINE: God. Three days?
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[Subject NINE sobs.]
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LEE: They gave you healing adjuvants. That's why you've been out so
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long.
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NINE: It feels like it's still -
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[Subject NINE leans forward, shaking aside her IV tube, and reaches
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into the space below where her left leg ends.]
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NINE: Oh, that's -
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[Subject NINE chokes, then retches and heaves. Subject LEE holds an
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emesis tray for subject NINE.]
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NINE: Ugh.
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LEE: It's okay. Here. Rinse out your mouth.
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[Subject NINE does so, then looks at her leg again. Subject NINE
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raises her left thigh, carefully touching the stump.]
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LEE: Does it hurt?
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NINE: No, not much. It's just -
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LEE: Weird?
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NINE: I keep thinking it's still there and I just can't see it.
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[Subject NINE presses the stump with her fingers.]
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NINE: I can still feel it. But I can feel this too. It's -
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[Subject NINE swallows hard. Subject LEE reaches for a clean emesis
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tray.]
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NINE: No - no, I'm okay.
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LEE: Okay.
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NINE: Will you -
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[Subject NINE takes subject LEE's hand and moves it toward her
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stump. Subject LEE rests her hand on subject NINE's left thigh,
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just above her knee.]
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NINE: It's okay if you can't.
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LEE: No, it's not.
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NINE: No.
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LEE: It's okay. I just -
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[Subject LEE begins to cry, and moves her hand down to rest on
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subject NINE's stump. Subject NINE places her hand atop subject
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LEE's and presses it against her stump.]
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NINE: Thank you -
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LEE: [INDISTINCT] see you like this.
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NINE: I'm sorry.
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[Subject LEE coughs, then laughs.]
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LEE: You're - you are a nonpareil, chérie.
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[Subject LEE wipes her eyes with her free hand.]
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LEE: You've just had your leg shot off and here you are,
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apologizing to me.
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[Subject NINE laughs.]
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NINE: And why not, madame? Am I the only one inconvenienced?
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LEE: I would hardly call it an inconvenience!
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NINE: Well, it is more than that. It still doesn't seem real.
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[Subject NINE begins to cry.]
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NINE: But I was sure I would die.
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LEE: Here, move over -
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[Subject LEE steps out of her slippers and climbs with some care
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into subject NINE's bed.]
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NINE: Mind the -
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LEE: [INDISTINCT]
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NINE: [INDISTINCT]
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[Subject NINE curls against subject LEE, sobbing. Subject LEE pulls
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subject NINE close.]
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LEE: You made it, Amelia. You're here. You're really here, and
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you're safe now! You're safe.
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[Subject NINE continues to cry while subject LEE comforts
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her. Psychometric overlay indicates delayed fear response
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consistent with subject NINE's experiences. Predictive function
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indicates healthy adaptation contingent upon continued strong bond
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and concomitant supoprt. Strongly recommend full debrief implement
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A09(c)§3.146 variance per Y. Laporte.]
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NINE: I still can't believe they let me go.
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LEE: They never had you. Kearsarge -
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NINE: No, I mean - back on Ganymede.
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LEE: Do you want to talk about it?
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NINE: No.
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LEE: Okay.
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NINE: They kept bringing me in for days, after they'd stopped
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talking to everyone else. Asking questions about who I knew on
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Luna, how I knew them - what we did, what we talked about. The same
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questions over and over, and I didn't know how much they already
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knew. After a while I wasn't even sure if I was lying.
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LEE: Did you tell them about us?
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NINE: Not at first.
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[Begin audio clarity filtering and enhancement.]
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NINE: I thought at first I could, you know. Leave it out.
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NINE: But they kept asking the same questions over and over. Eight
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hours a day, ten hours. I thought if I answered, told them what
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they wanted to hear, they'd stop. But they didn't.
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LEE: To find out if you were lying.
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NINE: I guess. They weren't nice about it, either. Kept telling
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me -
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NINE: There was this one. He kept telling me how I'd abused my
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position and Earth's trust. What a disgrace I am. That when they
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were done with me, he'd send me to therapy, or Wyoming, and I
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should be grateful for [INDISTINCT]
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LEE: [INDISTINCT]
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NINE: Yeah.
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LEE: You don't have to put yourself through this right now.
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NINE: No, I - I'm okay, I think. Just - it was bad.
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LEE: I know. When did it start?
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NINE: About two - no, three weeks ago.
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LEE: And they let you chat with me?
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NINE: He made me. Maintaining my pattern, he said. But only from
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the interview room. They'd taken my hand unit away.
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LEE: I'd wondered if something was wrong. You didn't sound quite
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yourself.
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NINE: I wasn't. [INDISTINCT] worst part?
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LEE: Tell me.
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NINE: They brought Joseph in.
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LEE: No.
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[End audio enhancement.]
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NINE: They did! Acting so disappointed in that fake way he has. How
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could I break his heart this way, how could I consort with another
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woman and a lunar at that, after all he'd done to try to help me
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cope with my problem. As if it hadn't been an arrangement all
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along. But he was always better at playing the game.
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LEE: [INDISTINCT]
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NINE: All of it. They told me to - say what I said, at the end. His
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idea, actually. Said it'd lend [INDISTINCT]
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LEE: [INDISTINCT]
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NINE: I told them [INDISTINCT]
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[Subject NINE sobs. Subject LEE comforts her.]
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NINE: I'm -
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LEE: No, don't apologize. You had to. I don't mind. I'm glad it
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wasn't worse.
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NINE: [INDISTINCT] enough.
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LEE: And about coming early? They told you to say that?
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NINE: Yes. I thought they were being especially cruel. But then the
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next day they just - let me go.
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LEE: Let you go?
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NINE: They did! Brought me in Thursday morning, sat me down just
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like always, and then the same one from before came in and told me
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they were sorry for the inconvenience. Thanked me for assisting in
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their investigations and told me I was free to go. Even gave me
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back my hand unit, wiped of course.
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LEE: And that was it? Nothing about -
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NINE: About being a disgrace? Therapy or Wyoming? Nothing. Just
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LEE: What did you do then?
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NINE: I went to work and tried to pretend nothing had ever been
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wrong! But they'd cleared my calendar for me. All of it, not just
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LEE: Being interrogated.
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NINE: Yes. It's a frightening word. I suppose I know why, now. I
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didn't stay long. No one wanted anything to do with me anyway. Went
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home hoping Joseph wouldn't be there, and he wasn't. I packed a bag
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NINE: [INDISTINCT] so scared! That they wouldn't let me through to
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the Luna side, at the checkpoint. They'd stop me, turn me back,
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keep me there. I was crying when I finally got there, shaking so
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hard I could barely stay on my feet, I was sure they'd stop me, but
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they didn't. Just scanned my ID and boarding pass and waved me
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through.
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NINE: And then I got my leg shot off.
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against the headboard, and reaches to touch the stump of her left
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NINE: I could almost forget about that part, except that I
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can't. But it's still a surprise every time I see it. Every time I
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think about it.
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[Subject NINE shakes her head.]
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NINE: Why do you think they'd do that? Just let me go like that,
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after everything.
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LEE: They weren't getting anywhere. They'd taken you through the
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same questions enough times to know you weren't hiding anything
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else, that they'd have seen it if you were. So they let you run and
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watched where you went.
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[Subject NINE looks carefully at subject LEE.]
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NINE: A very specific answer.
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LEE: It's not quite what our own counterintelligence people would
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have done. But it's close enough. I haven't told you everything,
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Amelia.
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NINE: I've never asked you to.
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LEE: No, and I've loved you for that, too. But you deserve to know.
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NINE: All right, then. Tell me.
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LEE: I told you I was a reserve major of infantry. I am a major,
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but in active service with military intelligence. I'm a - a case
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officer. A spy. And I've made you one as well.
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declined per Y. Laporte. Psychometric overlay for subject NINE
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NINE: When did it start?
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LEE: About a year after we met.
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NINE: After.
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LEE: Yes.
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NINE: You didn't choose me from a list of lonely Earther women
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known to have illicit tastes. They didn't give you my picture and
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order you to go to that conference to seduce me.
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LEE: I didn't -
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LEE: I was still a reservist then, as I'd said. They reactivated my
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commission about a month before Syria Planum.
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NINE: You were a perfect monster at Syria Planum.
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LEE: What was I to do? I couldn't leave you, Amelia. Not without
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violating my orders and going to the stockade for it. They were
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terribly serious about that. But I couldn't -
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NINE: You tried to make me leave you!
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LEE: They couldn't have done much about that. Just put me back on
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half pay. I still had some friends in the MI establishment, people
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who'd served with me. They'd have protected me. And I didn't -
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NINE: You didn't want to feel like you were using me.
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LEE: No.
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NINE: You must have been furious when I came back.
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LEE: I, furious?
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[Subject LEE laughs.]
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LEE: I'd never even seen you angry before! I wasn't sure you were
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capable of it.
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[Subject NINE laughs.]
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NINE: You learned.
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LEE: Yes! You told me exactly what you thought of the way I'd been
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treating you. And you were right! You said that if I was done with
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you, you'd thank me to show a little courage and tell me so, and
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perhaps we'd salvage something as friends of what you'd imagined
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would be our first time really together as lovers. And you said -
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NINE: I remember. And then you started crying.
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[Subject LEE begins to cry.]
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LEE: You'd taken all my choices away from me.
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NINE: You could have done worse.
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LEE: I couldn't! I could hardly stand what I'd already -
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NINE: I could see it hurt you, too. I didn't understand why. Why
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was it so hard then?
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[Subject NINE touches subject LEE's cheek.]
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NINE: And why are you crying over it now?
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[Subject LEE sobs.]
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LEE: Because I love you!
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[Subject NINE attempts to kiss subject LEE. Subject LEE pulls
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back. Subject NINE catches the back of subject LEE's neck and
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kisses her.]
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NINE: It must have been so hard for you. All these years.
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LEE: Hard for -
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[Subject LEE wipes her eyes.]
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LEE: Why are you taking this so well, chérie?
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NINE: Perhaps I'm truly furious on the inside, madame.
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[Subject LEE looks closely at subject NINE.]
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LEE: No, I don't think so. When did you start to suspect?
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NINE: Not long after Voortrekker left. You'd had so many questions
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for us both - more than simple interest in your lovers' work could
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explain. Especially when you asked me for that set of engineering
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drawings.
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LEE: Damn them, I knew I was taking a chance with that! Nothing
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would do but that -
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NINE: Oh, I believed what you were saying at the time, about the
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hydroponics. It was only later, when Kit was gone and I was back
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home, I started really thinking about it, and -
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[Subject NINE laughs.]
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NINE: For a spy, you are a very uneven liar.
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[Subject LEE laughs.]
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LEE: Hard to do one's best work when one's heart isn't truly in it.
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[Subject NINE kisses subject LEE.]
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NINE: You've shown me where your heart is, madame. True, I doubted
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you for a while. But you reassured me.
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[Subject LEE kisses subject NINE.]
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LEE: I don't deserve you, chérie.
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[Subject NINE laughs.]
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NINE: No indeed! But perhaps, with enough effort, you may earn the
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privilege.
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[Subject LEE laughs.]
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LEE: And all this time, you've never -
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NINE: How would you have liked me to put it? And what if I'd been
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wrong after all? How foolish I would have been!
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[Subject LEE laughs and hugs subject NINE tightly. Subject NINE
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reciprocates.]
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LEE: I was sure you would hate me.
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NINE: Oh, I might have, madame, I might have. To learn after almost
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thirty years that I've been a spy, and you my spymistress? If you'd
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told me a year ago, or a week ago -
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LEE: What changed?
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[Subject NINE disengages slightly from subject LEE, making room to
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interpose her left leg between them.]
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NINE: My perspective.
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[Subject LEE places her hand on subject NINE's stump.]
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NINE: Be gentle.
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LEE: Does it hurt?
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NINE: A little. It's okay.
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[Subject NINE moves closer to subject LEE.]
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NINE: Had you told me last week, I would have been heartbroken. I'd
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have seen only that you cultivated my trust and then abused it. I
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wouldn't have forgiven you. I wouldn't even have wanted to.
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LEE: And now?
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[Subject LEE looks away from subject NINE. Subject NINE places her
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hand on subject LEE's.]
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NINE: Tell me, madame. In what way have you betrayed me?
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LEE: I -
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NINE: You what? You've loved me? You've offered me solace I could
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find nowhere else?
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[Subject NINE begins to cry.]
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NINE: You've helped me remember that I'm not wrong, I'm not
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twisted, I'm not disgusting. That everything they tried to tell me
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on Ganymede I am, that I've been hearing my entire life people like
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us must be, I am not. You've brought me to meet your family, and
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let them welcome me, make me feel as if I were not an aberration!
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Is that how you've betrayed me?
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[Subject LEE begins to cry.]
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NINE: Or perhaps it was the times when you've taken me into your
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home, into your bed! When you've helped me forget the life my
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miserable nation forces me to lead, and - and the things I've had
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to do, to try to hold on to what illusion of safety I could. When
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you've made those things go away, for just a little while, and let
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me imagine a life where I never had to face them again.
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[Subject NINE kisses subject LEE.]
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NINE: You foolish woman, why do you think I love you? So many times
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you've been the only thing in the universe that reminded me of the
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possibility of hope. Truly you are a monster, Sameen.
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[Subject LEE laughs.]
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NINE: And now here we are together. Whatever happens next, we'll
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figure it out together. I'd never dare hope for so much.
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LEE: But your leg -
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NINE: I'd have given up more.
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[Subject LEE kisses subject NINE. Subjects hug one another
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tightly.]
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NINE: [INDISTINCT]
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LEE: Now, chérie?
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NINE: [INDISTINCT]
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LEE: [INDISTINCT]
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TRANSCRIPT INTERRUPTED
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APPX 40 MIN EXCLUDED PER Y. LAPORTE
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OVERLAYS DISABLED
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NINE: You're right - Lunar hospitals really are better than
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[Subject LEE laughs.]
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LEE: I've never known them to be quite that good.
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NINE: Well, I'm sure it will speed my recovery.
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LEE: All to the good. You need a bath, chérie.
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[Subject NINE laughs and swats subject LEE.]
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NINE: Monster! And you don't?
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LEE: I am a rose, fresh with morning dew.
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[Subject NINE laughs.]
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LEE: Come, slugabed! Let's get you to your foot.
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NINE: You are the very picture of sympathy.
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[Subject LEE stands and extends her hands to subject NINE, who
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takes them and pulls herself up.]
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LEE: Easy - you've been on your back for three days, don't -
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NINE: Oh, it's nothing! The gravity here is so light, it's as if -
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[Subject NINE sways. Subject LEE catches her.]
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NINE: Damn! I forget, and try to -
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LEE: Here, lean on me.
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[Subject LEE wraps her arm around subject NINE's back; subject NINE
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reciprocates.]
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NINE: So tall.
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LEE: Okay now?
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NINE: I think so. Let's - let's stay here a moment, and see.
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LEE: Of course.
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[Subject LEE kisses the top of subject NINE's head.]
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LEE: It's strange, you know.
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NINE: My hair?
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LEE: True, we have few redheads in Luna - one more soon, to my
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delight. And so prettily freckled!
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NINE: Spare my blushes, please, madame.
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LEE: And deny myself such a sight? But no, I mean that they let you
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go and then came after you. It doesn't make sense.
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NINE: Oh! Here, I'll show you.
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[Subject NINE looks around.]
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NINE: Where are my things?
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LEE: Your clothes were ruined, I believe. But -
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[Subject LEE leans, careful not to upset subject NINE, and
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retrieves a bag of subject NINE's effects from a drawer in the
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bedside table.]
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NINE: Ah - is my hand unit there?
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LEE: Yes, there at the bottom. Here -
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[Subjects LEE and NINE, working together, open the bag, and subject
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NINE retrieves her hand unit. NB: Device inspected per A09(c)§1.38,
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software implants identified and removed, transceivers disabled per
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file ref PEARLTAPE/DEBR/81a. Data dump file refs
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PEARLTAPE/DEBR/81b1 (primary store) PEARLTAPE/DEBR/81b2 and
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PEARLTAPE/DEBR/81b3 (substores encrypt/stegano per A09(b)§4.10).]
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NINE: Still charged.
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[Subject NINE unlocks the device, then enters a long passcode and
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reauthenticates via optical and touch sensors.]
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NINE: I set this up last year, the same way you showed me for our
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messages and logs. I thought they must have found it and wiped it
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too, but when I checked in the shuttle, it was still there. Look -
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[Subject NINE hands the device to subject LEE.]
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LEE: Calisse de tabernac!
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[Subjects NINE laughs. Subject LEE kisses subject NINE.]
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LEE: Is this everything?
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NINE: Everything I had.
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LEE: Maudit! Engineering drawings, documents, correspondence - and
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they must not have realized until after you were away. No wonder
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they came after you! Bad enough you should tell our attaché aboard
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the shuttle, but to have you bring us this -
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NINE: Do you need to, to call someone, or take that somewhere?
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LEE: No, they'll have dumped it before they released it to the
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hospital. My love, you'll have a medal for this!
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NINE: I don't need a medal.
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[Subject LEE kisses the top of subject NINE's head.]
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LEE: No, but you deserve one. More than anyone with whom I've ever
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served.
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[Subject NINE laughs.]
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NINE: My blushes -
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LEE: Are lovely as always. But I'm quite serious. I am a soldier,
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and we must be brave, to be what we are. We're trained to withstand
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fear, to do what we must in spite of it. You, though -
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NINE: Sameen, you don't -
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LEE: Amelia, listen, I know how you've doubted your courage. But
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what you've - everything you've done to be here. I would not have
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accepted such a mission if it had been given to me! None of us
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would. We'd have protested to command, gone to the stockade, rather
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than take on such a completely impossible series of tasks as the
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ones you set yourself.
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[Subject LEE pulls subject NINE into a tight hug against her chest,
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careful not to disturb subject NINE's balance.]
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LEE: I have always suspected you to be a madwoman, chérie, so I am
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not surprised. But mad or not, you are the bravest person I've ever
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known.
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NINE: [INDISTINCT]
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[Subject LEE leans down and kisses subject NINE firmly.]
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LEE: Don't try to argue! I will not call my lover a liar. You'll
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only force me to -
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[Subject NINE yelps, then laughs.]
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NINE: You tease. You monster!
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[Subject LEE laughs.]
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LEE: A monster, perhaps. But a tease?
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NINE: You are a monster. Lucky for you, though, [INDISTINCT]
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LEE: Goodness. Well then, ma petit chérie puante, let's go and find
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that bathtub, shall we?
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NINE: You'll have to let me go a little, first -
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LEE: I will not!
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[Subject LEE lifts subject NINE into her arms. Subject NINE
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laughs.]
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NINE: Oh, you make me feel tiny!
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LEE: Shall I put you down, then?
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[Subject NINE wraps her arms around subject LEE's neck and pulls
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subject LEE's head down for a kiss.]
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NINE: Never.
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[Subjects LEE and NINE exit observation area via en-suite door. At
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this time Y. Laporte terminates observation and dismisses OBINT
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team. No further interaction observed.]
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TRANSCRIPT ENDS
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TOP SECRET PEARLTAPE
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HANDLE VIA QUILL CHANNELS ONLY
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CATALOGUE CODEWORD:
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PEARLTAPE
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CATALOGUE INDICATORS:
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TRANSCRIPT/OBINT/DEBR/0274/1
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DATE:
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2421-10-18/20:11:14/+0000
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DURATION:
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02:31:17/TWO HOURS THIRTY ONE MINUTES SEVENTEEN SECONDS
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EXCLUSIONS TOTAL 41:19/FORTY ONE MINUTES NINETEEN SECONDS
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LOCATION:
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ROOM 417/YANG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
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ARRAKEEN TOWER/ARRAKIS PLANITIA
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TITAN
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SUBJECTS:
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SAMEEN LEE/MAJ/MI/IO3 J41029 PEARLTAPE CASE OFFICER
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AMELIA NINE/EARTHGOV EXPN SPT DIR VOORTREKKER (FMR)
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..FKA/AMELIA YOUNGER
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OIC:
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Y. LAPORTE/LTC/MI/SIO J33545 PEARLTAPE ACTUAL
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TRANSCRIBER:
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M. UNDINE/2LT/MI/IO1 J65849 OBINT OFFICE
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NOTES:
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THIS TRANSCRIPT DESCRIBES ROUTINE OBSERVATION OF UNDECLARED
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..DEBRIEFING SESSION PER A09(B)§4.12
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OBSERVATION ENDS PRIOR TO END OF INTERACTION PER Y. LAPORTE
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..REF A09(C)§3.181
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RECORDINGS AND OVERLAY DATA PRESERVED PER A09(B)§4.3. ACCESS
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..ONLY PSYCH ANALYSIS STAFF WITH TS/PEARLTAPE/INTSEN CLEARANCE
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