Then lemme ask ya this, Darlin', and I'm willing to talk civil with ya 'cuz everyone else I've been chatting with thinks we are just gonna flat out die, but I'm the kinda gal who don't look at my glass half-empty.

— See now, this is the first I've heard of a "first group experiment" talk, which would have been mighty fine if somebody done told us new folks about this lil' tidbit. Maybe all of this dyin' duck fits wouldn't be going off the train tracks.

You say we're not the first ones who've been through this and destroyin' it from the inside will end up like they did. Well, how did they destroy it, exactly? Is that somethin' we know?