HeadOfSecurity: Realize that you may have fucked up.

HeadOfSecurity: This...
ChiefEngineer: It got out of hand.
ChiefEngineer: We can fix it, and save these people. Focus.
HeadOfSecurity: I'm... sorry, I--
ChiefEngineer: Focus. Rationalizations and regret are later.
ChiefEngineer: All that matters is what you do now, okay?
HeadOfSecurity: We need to call in a response team. And I can organize--
ChiefEngineer: Are we calling the shuttle?
HeadOfSecurity: I...
HeadOfSecurity:
HeadOfSecurity: We could--

Words ring through your skull like the voice of god. Your gut sinks. Every part of your brain left uninjured knows what happens now. It sounds like every teacher, every bureaucrat and clerk, every judge. Every part of an un-nuanced system that has ever smoothed the complexity out of life ruthlessly.

HeadOfPersonnel: Do you have a minute?