There's a funny little thing Caboose does when he knows he's done something Probably Wrong and doesn't want to admit it: if Tucker isn't around to blame, then he'll start talking about something completely unrelated, as though the distraction will make Wash forget that the kitchen is on fire because someone tried to bake cookies at one thousand degrees Fahrenheit. Again.
Wash is fairly certain he's witnessing the My IQ Is Above 60 version of that particular conversational tactic, because that was a terrible subject change.
Holy shit, he might actually be better than Chief at something.
"It was corrupt from the top down," he says conversationally, like he's discussing his day at the office - which, in a way, he is. "Misplaced priorities, uninformed agents, and so much illegal and immoral AI experimentation that they rewrote laws because of the shit the Director pulled. But that's not what we're talking about."
He folds his arms, a bit more serious. "You don't get to stop me with we need to talk and then change the subject when you don't like how the conversation's going. That's not how this works." And Wash is fairly certain that, unlike Caboose, Chief actually fully understands what he's saying. "So are you going to acknowledge what I said, or are you going to sidestep again?"
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Wash is fairly certain he's witnessing the My IQ Is Above 60 version of that particular conversational tactic, because that was a terrible subject change.
Holy shit, he might actually be better than Chief at something.
"It was corrupt from the top down," he says conversationally, like he's discussing his day at the office - which, in a way, he is. "Misplaced priorities, uninformed agents, and so much illegal and immoral AI experimentation that they rewrote laws because of the shit the Director pulled. But that's not what we're talking about."
He folds his arms, a bit more serious. "You don't get to stop me with we need to talk and then change the subject when you don't like how the conversation's going. That's not how this works." And Wash is fairly certain that, unlike Caboose, Chief actually fully understands what he's saying. "So are you going to acknowledge what I said, or are you going to sidestep again?"