[ That's something. That offer to complete a task. It would have been best if there had been some job, some request - some demand, even. It would have made Gregor less terrifying and strange if all of this had been drawing the clone (Mark Pierre) into being his servant. A neat little reversal, a nice revenge, using all these soft words and appeals to simply take a weapon, make it his, and turn it back on its creators. It would have been respectable, even. The clone would have respected it, even as it destroyed him. Returning a thermonuclear payload undetonated, boom, the work of a savvy manipulator.
It has to be in there, right? His ill intent. His desire to eliminate his enemies. It must be somewhere, deep in his mind. With sudden ruthlessness, the clone pushes his consciousness forward, searching - rummaging through all the memories and thoughts he can find to unearth evidence of the Emperor's depravity. His hard pragmatism. It's good that Gregor has limited the link, because it in turn limit's the clone's reach - he can't roam freely through all of Gregor's mind, but instead just find the things on the surface, like a man reaching through a narrow gap - only able to grasp what's close at hand. But he doesn't ask permission.
But nor does he hurt. That's not the goal. There's no fury directed at Gregor. There's no desire to tear him apart - to find things to injure him with, or to uproot his personality. It's just a scrabble to find where he's lying, how he's lying. A grasping attempt to uncover the plans for this clone. ]
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It has to be in there, right? His ill intent. His desire to eliminate his enemies. It must be somewhere, deep in his mind. With sudden ruthlessness, the clone pushes his consciousness forward, searching - rummaging through all the memories and thoughts he can find to unearth evidence of the Emperor's depravity. His hard pragmatism. It's good that Gregor has limited the link, because it in turn limit's the clone's reach - he can't roam freely through all of Gregor's mind, but instead just find the things on the surface, like a man reaching through a narrow gap - only able to grasp what's close at hand. But he doesn't ask permission.
But nor does he hurt. That's not the goal. There's no fury directed at Gregor. There's no desire to tear him apart - to find things to injure him with, or to uproot his personality. It's just a scrabble to find where he's lying, how he's lying. A grasping attempt to uncover the plans for this clone. ]