And it was way too late by then. Everything had already happened, right? But why--why did the Director do what he did? I know what you told me, I remember, not enough AI for the experiments. [It fractures itself to protect itself.] But, what, so he--he stuck someone he loved in some armor to be a badass Freelancer? But she had Omega. He gave a fragment a fragment, that doesn't make sense, what did he think would happen?

[He's trying to keep it together, turn this into 20 questions so he doesn't run off on Wash again. He doesn't know that he's succeeding. He knows where this is going, more exploding and yelling and arguing, because that's what happens when Wash decides to treat him like this, and he can barely stop it because of course he wants to know.]