[ Wait a second. She's supposed to be dead as well? It's really starting to become a running theme to discover this about people here, to the point that his internal deliberation on whether any of them are actually alive is starting to get hard to ignore. ]

And then what? You arrived here? She said that she thought her boss was the one responsible for bringing her here, like she was put here to fulfill some directive. I admit, I almost believed it at first — it seemed almost too convenient that we'd need to help an artificial intelligence and then some expert on them showed up out of the blue.

...But is that actually possible if she'd already died in service of this boss?

[ He's not just trying to dismantle her claims or anything; he'd really like to know what Shaw thinks. ]