Loren Peta

Interviewer: [Baseline test room at LAPD HQ] Officer K-D-six-dash-three-dot-seven, let's begin. Ready?

'K': Yes, sir.

Interviewer: Recite your baseline.

'K': And blood-black nothingness began to spin... A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem... And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played.

Interviewer: Cells.

'K': Cells.

Interviewer: Have you ever been in an institution? Cells.

'K': Cells.

Interviewer: Do they keep you in a cell? Cells.

'K': Cells.

Interviewer: When you're not performing your duties do they keep you in a little box? Cells.

'K': Cells.

Interviewer: Interlinked.

'K': Interlinked.

Interviewer: What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Interlinked.

'K': Interlinked.

Interviewer: Did they teach you how to feel finger to finger? Interlinked.

'K': Interlinked.

Interviewer: Do you long for having your heart interlinked? Interlinked.

'K': Interlinked.

Interviewer: Do you dream about being interlinked?

'K': Interlinked.

Interviewer: What's it like to hold your child in your arms? Interlinked.

'K': Interlinked.

Interviewer: Do you feel that there's a part of you that's missing? Interlinked.

'K': Interlinked.

Interviewer: Within cells interlinked.

'K': Within cells interlinked.

Interviewer: Why don't you say that three times: Within cells interlinked.

'K': Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked. Within cells interlinked.

Interviewer: We're done... Constant K, you can pick up your bonus.

'K': Thank you, sir.

Lieutenant Joshi: Hey. You've been getting on fine without one.

'K': What's that, madam?

Lieutenant Joshi: A soul.