Professor Nick Cutter:
You gave me a fright there. Valerie, what are you doing?
Valerie:
What am I doing? What about you? Don't tell me that you're not responsible for all of this.
Professor Nick Cutter:
What?
Valerie:
You people... with all your mysteries and secrets... I knew who you were from the first minute. You created him in some kind of, horrible genetic experiment, didn't you? He escaped, and now you've come to take him back. Well I won't let you.
Professor Nick Cutter:
That's not how it is.
Valerie:
Please don't lie to me! I'm not stupid. I'm going to take him somewhere safe, and I'll tell everyone what you've done.
Professor Nick Cutter:
But what are you going to say? That you buried your boyfriend after your pet killed him?
Valerie:
...It was an accident. Dave got careless, he didn't know how to handle him...!
Professor Nick Cutter:
And you do?
Valerie:
He trusts me... I'm the closest thing to a mother he's ever had. I went into my garbage one day, and he was just, somehow, magically, there... a tiny cub, frightened, alone. Half-dead. I had to look after him.
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