X-466
Well, well, well... You couldn't even last for the entire test... How predictable...
X-466 exclaimed, a wide grin on his face.
X-466
With hindsight, it was a stupid idea all along...
IRINA
Stop right now!
Irina jumped to her feet.
IRINA
You never said we had time limit!
R-328
No, you don't have a time limit, but our patience does.
Said R-328 entering the compound.
IRINA
That's...
R-328
You have had plenty of time to reach an agreement on silly matters such as...
He picked up a worn out questionnaire from the kitchen table and read aloud
R-328
"Should global nuclear proliferation be restricted?" and still you want more time?
PAAYE
We agreed on that answer!
R-328
Well done..?
The clone threw the questionnaire on the floor.
R-328
That was frankly a pathetic effort.
And he turned around to leave.
WHETU
So that's it?!
Whetu exclaimed, desperation in her voice.
WHETU
You are just going to walk away because we can't agree on some random stuff?!
LWAZI
That's right! After all we've been through! You've treated us like your own lab rats for months on end!
CLARA
We have risked our lives...
X-466 broke in uncontrollable laughter.
PAAYE
What do you have to laugh?!
X-466
Y-you... y-you think t-that...
Stuttered X-466, barely able to restrain himself.
X-466
You think you've been in danger?! Are you kidding me? There's cameras everywhere, we've been watching you, giving you supplies, electricity, heat, everything you need, and you say you've been in danger?!
BARKHADO
You launched us from the stratosphere!
X-466
And everything was going to be fine until a human deliberately made a mess of things!
NANDA
So you are going to punish us all because of what the Americans did?!
X-466
HAHAHAHA!
Laughed uncontrollably the clone.
X-466
Yeah, sure. Blame the people around you... the people responsible for the attempt on Irina's life are not here anymore, are they? But you are, aren't you? So whose fault is it really?
JUNIOR
That's unfair!
R-328
Careful now, Space...
Said R-328, raising his voice.
R-328
As long as you want a place on our starship, we are the ones who decide who gets to come and who doesn't...
PAAYE
So you demand...
Both clones broke into laughter now.
X-466
Demand?! What are we demanding exactly?!
The clone asked his sibling.
R-328
A set of selfish, entitled humans to share our life with?
X-466
That's what we got...
LWAZI
We have rights!
X-466
Rights! RIGHTS! Exactly!
Said the clone in an exasperated tone, and he started pacing up and down the room.
X-466
The whole concept of "human rights" is so, soo absurd!
LWAZI
No surprise there...
Sarcastically replied Lwazi. The clone ignored him.
X-466
The fact that you had to establish and then impose rules to safeguard basic rights for everybody is exactly why you are without hope.
JUNIOR
And what's wrong with that?
R-328
What's wrong is that it took you millennia to come up with a solution to a problem that shouldn't even have existed in the first place. Had you been a kind and loving species from the start there would not have been any need to force, and I repeat, force peace and respect for everybody.
X-466
And don't even get me started on the awful job you are doing at enforcing those very same rights!
R-328
So, most unsurprisingly, all it took was some stupid questions and a couple of months of isolation to tip you over the edge and reveal you as the hostile creatures you are.
X-466
And we told you!
R-328
We constantly told you!
X-466
Every single test we had you do.
R-328
Every single time we reminded you to collaborate.
X-466
But did you listen?
R-328
Did you pay any attention?
Nobody replied.
Those among them who had been insisting to collaborate had no more strength in the face of failure.
Those who had refused to collaborate were busy thinking how foolish they had been.
R-328
You will hear from us eventually.
The clones turned around and left the compound, drawing a curtain on the final stage of the selection.
