[God. He officially hates having to explain this. He waves one hand, as if applying some kind of physical shape to the words would make them more articulate.]

Church's friends. I guess they either couldn't tell the difference between the Alpha and just a fragment, or they figured that was the best they were gonna get after the E.M.P. - [After I guilted Church into his own death.] - and I don't know how they all worked that out or decided that he was just gonna be their new Church, okay?

They were supposed to turn him in. He was supposed to be proof that would get the Director burned, once and for all. It was literally the only instruction I gave them besides "run for your lives," and they couldn't even do that.