Now that is just all kinds of shady. They seriously faked an execution? Fucking figures...
[ Cisco can tell this is something personal for Ed - not just a story he heard. It makes sense, once he explains that he'd been expected to continue that fucked up research, himself. Cisco's own experience of military corruption is not quite so personal, but he still has strong feelings about it. ]
Doesn't sound very different, nope. And people talk about how the military will handle all this dangerous stuff all on their own, but a lot of the time the people in charge of those groups are just out for their own good, and don't care how many laws they have to break or how many people they hurt in the process.
[ He thinks about Bette Sans Souci, whose death still stings, about Eiling kidnapping and torturing Stein, about him developing weapons specifically to stop Barry, who was the one actually on the side of good. ]
That's one of the things I like about this place. I mean, sure, there's the Perimeter Guard, but it's not the same, you know? They don't operate that way.
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[ Cisco can tell this is something personal for Ed - not just a story he heard. It makes sense, once he explains that he'd been expected to continue that fucked up research, himself. Cisco's own experience of military corruption is not quite so personal, but he still has strong feelings about it. ]
Doesn't sound very different, nope. And people talk about how the military will handle all this dangerous stuff all on their own, but a lot of the time the people in charge of those groups are just out for their own good, and don't care how many laws they have to break or how many people they hurt in the process.
[ He thinks about Bette Sans Souci, whose death still stings, about Eiling kidnapping and torturing Stein, about him developing weapons specifically to stop Barry, who was the one actually on the side of good. ]
That's one of the things I like about this place. I mean, sure, there's the Perimeter Guard, but it's not the same, you know? They don't operate that way.