Here's to hoping. [ A dry chuckle. As much as he himself doesn't want to be here for any longer than he already has, the prospect of watching Reno slowly lose his pride and hope is oddly satisfying. It doesn't weigh out the bad, but it sweetens it a touch. ]

I wonder who else they've dragged into this godforsaken cesspit... or if this truly is another show of the scientists' sense of humor.