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[Kovacs] Where's my sister?

[Quell] They're getting her something to eat. She's fine.

[Kovacs] I know who you are.

[Quell] I'd be disappointed if you didn't. Your faces are all over the wanted beacons. The bounty's a fortune. You've pissed someone off.

[Kovacs] I have a gift.

[Quell] I believe that.

[Kovacs] We'll be all right.

[Quell] I believe that, too. You're CTAC SpecOps. Protectorate through and through. Rumor is you took out an entire squad of Praetorians. CTAC's trying to keep it quiet. Looks bad, one of their own biting the hand that feeds.

[Kovacs] I think I chewed off the whole arm. They pissed me off.

[Quell] Your sister mowed through some of the best the yakuza had to offer.

[Kovacs] They pissed her off.

[Quell] The two of you know the secret workings of both crime and government, which are more or less the same.

[Kovacs] Not interested.

[Quell] I haven't offered you anything yet.

[Kovacs] Don't bother. Just let us go.

[Quell] On some level, you know we're on the same side. The enemy of my enemy —

[Kovacs] — is just one more person who might knife me in my sleep.

[Quell] You're a little cynical, Takeshi Kovacs.

[Kovacs] I'm tied up. I'd say I have reason to be.

[Quell] Join us. Make a difference.

[Kovacs] Nothing makes a difference. I'm done fighting in this war.

[Quell] War is like any other bad relationship. You want out, but at what price?

[Kovacs] If they knew an Uprising base was on Harlan's World, they'd tear apart this planet to find you. Aren't you worried I'll tell 'em?

[Quell] No.

[Kovacs] If I killed you... the Protectorate would forgive everything.

[Quell] Do you want their forgiveness? The innocent, the person you were before all this, he's still there. I see the boy inside the man. Tell me something, Takeshi Kovacs: What did the Protectorate take from you?

[Kovacs] Everything.

[Quell] What would you do for revenge?

[Kovacs] Anything.

[Quell] That's a good start.

[Kovacs] You don't want me. Don't you understand what CTAC does to make someone like me? They burn out every evolved violence-limitation instinct in the human psyche. And they replace it with the conscious will to do harm.

[Quell] And yet you haven't hurt me.

[Kovacs] I might still.

[Quell] No. You won't, Kovacs. You're only pretending to be one of the monsters.