While part of him was annoyed that she was disagreeing with him off the bat, his more rational side knew that it was good. The more they discussed this, the closer they might get to reasoning it all out. "I don't think choice matters to them," he pointed out. "They don't have to have our cooperation for any of this, do they?" They certainly hadn't asked before bringing them here, and they also didn't ask before sticking needles into them or messing with their heads. Why should they need to ask to get them to fight?

The real question was why they were being kept here instead of used for their real purpose, whatever that might be. Why did they need to be contained? It was almost like they needed to be released slowly, one at a time, hence the slow trickle both into and out of the institute. But once again, he was left to ask why.

"And either way, they have to need us for something. If you don't think it's that, then what? As raw materials?" That was a more gruesome train of thought than he ever wanted to go down, but there it was. Either way, Harvey seriously doubted this was all for fun and games. There had to be a purpose for it. He might have believed the sadism theory when it was one man running a torture show, but not now, not when a whole military force was involved.