...I have said from the beginning, I am not a soldier. My purpose as a scientist is to improve lives, not to take them. One could make the argument that countless would be saved by ending one, but that is...not a solution I am prepared to accept.

[Because it was right. Viktor more than anyone knew he should have died to stop what he had nearly done, but on the other side of it he knew damn well he did not have the capacity to make that decision.]

When this inevitably becomes a fight, I will not hold back for the sake of protecting everyone here. To save this world, I will face whatever twisted imitation of my past self that I must. But I...will not be able to do so alone.