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"Hey! You've reached Skye. Leave a message. I mean, if you want to. Or uh, don't. Whatever."

...yeah, good point. I guess they shoulda known better. The kidnappers, I mean.

[Saul is suddenly very grateful that he can walk through things and turn invisible. No more kidnappings for him, no sir.]

It took us a while, since they had, uh... power nullifier tech. But after that was taken care of...

Oh, shit, that's a thing?

[There goes that thought.]

And — "unknown forces," you said? Not the Russians?

Yeah, that's a thing. My boss and I are working on making a power nullifier ... nullifier, but it's taking some time.

A lot of people think it was the Russians. I don't buy it.

No?

[Another sip.]

What's your theory, then?

I don't have a theory yet, I just don't think it was the Russians. If it was, why the whole charade? Why the challenges? Nobody's been able to trace it back to the Russians with any tangible proof, so why not just kill us all outright? Or better yet, run medical tests on us to get samples of our DNA so they can make their own superheroes? It just doesn't add up.

Did your captors do any of that?

Nope. Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Uh, yeah.

[That's fucked up. Saul considers how fucked up it is while taking a long drink.]

Do you think it was just — I dunno, someone who actually read the Hunger Games and took the plot a little too seriously?

It's possible, but I doubt it. This thing was a big operation-- it had mad funding. Which means it was vetted by multiple people.

Jeez.

[That's really all he has to say about that; he really can't, like, conceptualize that as something that actually happened. And he doesn't want to.]