This is your choice. It might be the last choice you ever get to make. [His voice is almost pleading now. He can see the small, fitful shudder that seizes the program, and it confounds him just as much as it did when he spoke Rinzler in the hold all those months ago.

If he’s so afraid, why doesn’t he stop?

Alan takes a step forward, more on instinct than by any conscious choice.] Please, just think about what you’re doing. You’re talking like he’s already recoded you– [He stops then, stares at the flickering firelight reflected in the black of Rinzler’s mask. His expression is suddenly stricken.] He hasn’t, has he?