Does it come off that way? [he's actually stayed out of their affairs since Rinzler fell into that Ingress like some idiot child... Unbelievable. What had Prometheus seen in that security program-

Speaking of...]

I guess you could say we have something of a history. Didn't you ask me this before? [he looks up when the clerk from earlier returns, taking his card from them. Prometheus dumps it in his (rather small) inventory, but to Alan, it looks like it just disappears in a flurry of pixels] I used to think we were kindred spirits... But you know him, always in denial about even the most basic of facts. Except this time the joke's on me.

We weren't alike at all.

[he laughs, but there's no real humour in it. It's as if he can't even express himself normally]