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[suburbanlegend]

Holy shit.

I mean, heck. [She bangs on the glass once, wincing.] No, I'm pretty sure it's shit.

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[324b21]

[Ignores that in order to theorize] Okay, so an experiment like this is all about the will to survive. They're separating us into four even categories, when you think about it.

[suburbanlegend]

Four? The desperate, the suicidal, and the what? The Hunger Games enthusiast?

[324b21]

The top 50%, the bottom 50%, and then in each category there's the person who agrees to die and the person who doesn't.

[suburbanlegend]

Let's just agree no one gets to die and call it a tie. I don't see how statistics are a big help here.

[324b21]

If anyone's getting killed, it's more likely to be because we don't give an answer. Even if we take the rules at face value, we're better off.

[suburbanlegend]

Right, right. [Rubbing the back of her neck nervously, she still eyes the knife.]

So what do we do about that?

[324b21]

[Oh god, Alison and knives] Nothing. Pretend it's not there. Let's just work through this all hypothetically, okay?

[suburbanlegend]

Fine. We can do that [for now.]

We better not touch it or anything. You don't know what they might do with our fingerprints.

[324b21]

Good idea.

Okay, so hypothetically, if we were going to choose one of us to survive...

[shuts up suddenly because her brain has caught up with well it makes sense for the scientist who is studying all the clones and trying to save them from mysterious respiratory diseases to be saved ahead of all else but like hell she's going to say that out loud]

[suburbanlegend]

I have children who need me. [Come on, end of discussion, but she has the decency not to look smug over it.]

[324b21]

I guess, "I've got research" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

[suburbanlegend]

You never had to change your laptop's diaper at 3 in the morning. Don't even think about it.

[324b21]

You'd be surprised how little tissue cultures care about humane working hours.

[suburbanlegend]

You're nervous, aren't you? You think I'm capable of hurting you.

[324b21]

To be fair, last time I saw you you did point a gun at two people.

Look, I know how these things work. Sure, this breaks every ethical guideline in the book and some that haven't been invented yet, but there's still no reason to assume they're actually going to kill anyone.

[In which case...] So we can put you down to be the "survivor", all right?

[suburbanlegend]

You're-- We're going to cheat.

We're seriously going to cheat. I can see the gears in your mind turning already. And you never considered they might have this thing bugged just to listen to us planning to cheat?

[324b21]

[holds her hands up] No cheating. We're going to give them exactly what they want.

[suburbanlegend]

[Trusting Cosima as far as she can throw her lends to some uncomfortable thoughts about Alison's own weight and let's not get into that. Never mind it's Cosima's trust she needs.]

See? That wasn't so hard.

[324b21]

So. Now that we've got that out the way, what are we willing to give up?

[suburbanlegend]

Talk about melodramatic.

Wait, when they say "give up", is it anything like monetary assets? Because I haven't finished the payments on the Prius yet.

[324b21]

Who knows? Sounds open ended to me. If we take it as a theoretical exercise then anything could be fair game.

[suburbanlegend]

Fine. What do you drive?

[324b21]

That's the best you can come up with?

[suburbanlegend]

Listen. This situation we have here is as far from happy land as possible, and I want to cut our losses while we still can.

I don't want it to come down to lives.

[324b21]

Even the lives of whoever's been killing us?