- Dr. Laviche: Actual verbal language is less important than the physiological data we need to compile. The subject's highly economical use of oxygen, for example. Her ability to communicate with whales.
- Agent Jake Shelby: That's all very well from a medical point of view. We need to question the subject. We need names, dates, facts...
- Dr. Laviche: Yes, in due course. But first, we must address ourselves to the biological and commercial possibilities inherent in the specimen.
- Richter: Commercial possibilities?
- Dr. Laviche: We may be able to splice some of the specimens characteristics onto the DNA of human lifeforms. If PRAXIS had exclusive rights to such a process...
- Richter: Good. Very good. A good point.
- Agent Elly Hauser: Neri is not a specimen, Doctor. She's a living, compassionate being. And as for splicing and grafting her DNA...
- Agent Jake Shelby: You're out of line, Hauser.
- Agent Elly Hauser: I don't care if...
- Richter: But I do, Agent. It means you're becoming personally involved in the investigation.
- Agent Elly Hauser: All I want is for Neri to be treated with some dignity and respect!