"I begin to think you enjoy upsetting me," he says, dryly. Because, well, he does it so well. Or maybe Dennett really is that easily flustered.

"But I don't want to--I'm not sure I can kill someone. Maybe that means I am weak, but it's against everything I've worked for, my whole life."

But yes, he can't refute the whole 'it's not going to save you' thing.

"So, like some kind of alternate universe or something?" So...he comes from a science fiction novel. Okay....