[He can’t help but wince at the confusion in Sam’s voice.] I… I thought there was an error in Rinzler’s code. Something that was causing him to lash out without understanding why. [His brow furrows as he remembers his own thoughts, the ease with which he’d accepted that explanation.] I wasn’t trying to control him or to… lobotomize him. [The word had appeared multiple times on the network post and it’s the one thing Alan feels he can deny. That had never been what he wanted for the program.] I just… I couldn’t let him hurt anyone else. Or give them reason to hurt him.

[Because he’d already let it happen too many times, to too many people, long before he ever set foot on the Moira.] I was wrong about his code. And I know I made a mistake. But I was never trying to hurt him.