- [last lines]
- Madeline: Brevich is dead, Michael back in the fold. Congratulations.
- Operations: Thank you.
- Madeline: It was a huge risk. Could have ended very badly.
- Operations: But it didn't.
- Madeline: I doubt it's gonna be that simple. There's nothing keeping them apart now.
- Operations: When I was a boy, my father and I were hunters. We had two retrievers. Good dogs, very fond of each other. Being close kept them content and efficient, but occasionally it interfered with the hunt.
- Madeline: How did you deal with it?
- Operations: A system of rewards and punishments, as with any living creature.
- Madeline: Did it work?
- Operations: For a while. Eventually, we had to put one of them to sleep.
- Operations: You of all people aren't going to warn me against playing God?
- Madeline: No. Provided we do a decent job of it. God doesn't make clumsy mistakes.
- Operations: Nonsense. Scientists say 90% of the species ever created on this planet are now extinct. That's a ten percent success rate. Ours are much higher than that. End of discussion.