The black mask shakes. Dips, tip lingering toward Rinzler's own red-orange lights. Self-reference. Him; Rinzler; specific case. The gesture used for something not worth application of an "I".

"Can't."

The word is thick with distortion. "He—" and it grows louder, swallowing whatever faulty phrase might have filled the gap. Blame is wrong. Rinzler is loyal, and Clu could never be at fault for that. Tron was a failure. Tron earned everything [he] got.

"Programmer" instead, and that reads better. Not what Clu did, but who Clu is.

Clu made him.