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Transcript

• Steven: ... so tu summarize: If the process works, the virus should burn off completely
• Cuddow: [whispers] (Hey! Maybe I could try weird paper cut-outs! Like Matisse! ... Do you have scissors
• Skitter: Shhhhh!
• Steven: His biological system wll be dramatically different, of course. The Vinn virus is hugely transformative
• Steven: ... Should he wish, we can transplant organs from Veetan cadavers, ... but the simple truth is, every organ in his body should work markedly better from the infection
• Taneel: WAIT: Why did you say "if the process works"?
• Steven: We've only tried the dang thing once... and not on a Veetan. At best we have a fifty-fifty chance to---
• Taneel: No. Stephen, no. That is not good enough.
• Steven: Taneel... Hey! You can't take that kind of tone, here
• Taneel: NOT GOOD ENOUGH. DO YOU HEAR ME?? YOU WILL SAVE THAT BOY, BY GOD.
• Steven: Taneel, stop this! This is not wisdom: Don't repeat your brother's mistakes...
• Taneel: YOU WILL SAVE THAT BOY
• Steven: Guards! Guards!
• [Cuddow tranquilizes Taneel with a TAK]
• Cuddow: You.
• Cuddow: Will save.
• Cuddow: That boy.

Trivia

• This page is called "Not Good Enough"
• The holographic projection seems to show a kind of bacteriophage, which makes sense, since this is a viable way to introduce foreign material into a cell and since the Vinn parasite is viral at its basis.
• This is the first mention of Taneel's brother.