Well Veil, we found your missing liaison officer. Vira and I go way back. From the time she first appeared in the Redpill society, she’s been a thorn in my side. She never would listen to reason, never would accept the truth no matter how plainly it was stated. I suppose I shouldn’t have ever expected it from anyone who willingly pursued illusion over reality. The system of control known as the Cypherites must have seemed efficient to the Machines when they cooked it up. It’s a way to get Redpills to not only stop Awakening Bluepills, but also have them willingly volunteer to return to the pods. As if you could deliver on the promise. Does anyone actually believe that Smith would have kept his word to re-insert Cipher once they had Morpheus? The Cypherites might believe it – they are the gullible sort. It turns out you can’t manipulate memories quite as easily as you’d like to. You failed with that Olympic sprinter… what’s his name, Dan something – doesn’t matter – he got past the memory block and eventually freed himself from your control. Vira said she wanted the comfort of returning to the dream, falling asleep to forget the loss she’d suffered. But her search for dreams led her into a Machine-created nightmare. Scanline may have her now, but they aren’t responsible for her disappearance or what happened to her. Is it efficient to leave your failures behind to suffer and die alone? Is that how the real Cryptos met his end, suffering on the end of his Jack as the Agent absorbed his “memories, speech patterns and habits of language construction”? Do you want to tell us by what necessity the process could not be complete? Maybe his mind snapped at the end, just like poor Vira’s. To say she’s not in one piece is a cruel play on words; to say she’s not all there is stating the obvious. Her mind has been broken into a million bits, and I can’t help but feel sorry for her. But who does she blame now? She blames the very people who were there, trying to help her find herself again. It’s a good thing it was we who were there. If it were the Machines, wouldn’t they just dispatch her like they did TIMMCAM because she’s a “risk” now? Broken or not, Cypherite or not, pain in my *** or not, she’s still human and protecting Humanity is what we are all about. We know where she is, we know her condition, we know who has her and we know what he wants in return for her safe delivery. If you want her, you’ll have to deal with us now, with assurances that she’ll be made whole again. If you don’t care, or can’t see an efficient, logical reason to save her, then in the words of the original Cryptos, Neo rest his soul, “Screw you, you dam robot. Nobody’s gonna fall for this load of blue-pill crap. You don’t know humans. You don’t know jack!”