''This is outrageous, we've spent our lives on this project, and now you're telling me to destroy the whole thing like it never existed?! Well I won't! I refuse!''
''Paul, please don't overreact-''
''Overreact?! That's the biggest understatement of the decade, I haven't even begun yet!''
Paul Kaypek stares out of his office window, the news he has just been given wasn't what he was expecting from the celebrations of yesterday.
''These orders come from the government, Paul. Someone put a fake bomb in a hospital because of this, there's nothing we can do!''
''Paul closes his eyes and shakes his head. ''So they're afraid Ingenium will cause violence, so to prove their point they use violence. People's phobias prohibit them from seeing the good that we're trying to create. And now, because one little shit threatened violence, we have to say that all the years of anguish and turmoil to make this technology was just for fun? Tell me, Karl, after I destroy this, what do the last twenty-three years mean? You tell that to the team of people who spent their lives creating this!''
Karl rubs his red and sweaty brow. ''It's not only that, Paul, the government are telling us we rushed bringing Ingenium online, that we didn't go through the right protocols and ethical issues with bringing such technology to life.''
Paul's face brightens. ''So we just take him offline and jump through their ethic issue hoops. It might take years before we can bring him back online, but with the right press coverage, at least we can make the public comfortable with him.''
Karl stares at Paul for a while, almost as if he's about to turn white. ''I'm afraid it's too late for that, Paul. The media have had a field day with this. They're calling him, 'The real Skynet.' People are really scared. The government want to make this as official as possible and are bringing their own people in with the media tomorrow, to personally oversee that Ingenium is taken apart.''
Paul looks deep into Karl's eyes, more determined than ever. ''I'll never let them do that!''
''Then you'll go to jail, Paul,'' Karl says, with emotion.
''Humans...they have no imagination,'' Paul replies and rushes past Karl's side, heading out of the nearest door.