My inclination would typically be to tamper with their study. I don't relish the idea of going along with what they've got planned. But... what they want and what we want are the same, as far as I can tell. We don't want undue violence, and we certainly don't want to be victims of a famine.

[ He puts his glasses back on and though he appears terribly, terribly calm, his foot is tapping a rampant tattoo underneath the table. It doesn't appear that he even notices that he's doing it. He considers joking that they can't even take themselves out of their misery, but decides against it. It will hit too close to home. ]

All right. [ He breathes out. ] All right. We don't know what will happen in the end. What will happen if we are a success story, if we're to be released back to our homes, or...

[ Don't think about it. ]

But we can deal with the short-term of what could happen to us. Create some sort of food preservation system while we still have the resources, ensure that conflict among our numbers doesn't escalate unduly. And we can see... here, that they're playing off of psychological trauma to encourage us to be our worse selves, I can only assume.

[ He and Daniel have spoken on that before, on psychiatric medication, on the lack of psychiatric professionals. ]

Safeguards against that are... more difficult, but possible with a more proactive approach. Warnings to newcomers as to what they can imagine, some sort of -- of buddy system so that there's some sort of buffer against spiraling in isolation?

[ He's grasping at straws, and he knows it. But they have to do something. ]