[ Honestly, if anything the fact that HYDRA was over by the time Pierce got here would only worry him more. A man with no life, no future in his own world, would be all the likelier to want to build all his work from the ground up all over again, while he'd be more focused in going back if he had something to go back to. ]

We all need to know about it. [ Pierce has been here long enough. Jim dreads to think how deep the roots have gotten, how far his tentacles have reached. ] I think— we might find more information with the Prometheus Labs, I think that was his main base of operations. Around the guard, not so much.

[ A pause, ] I'd like to help, if you don't mind.