"So far, I don't know anyone that remembers the last time they were here, but it isn't impossible. If the reason they kill people is because they've become impossible to brainwash, it wouldn't make sense to bring them back with their memories in one piece," Fox said, it was a difficult topic to discuss but still an important one.

Facing the possibility that Snake would die here again was harder than Fox expected. That was why Snake hadn't been able to pull the trigger. Fox understood now, in a way that he hadn't been able to before. Even if it was the right thing to do at the time, even if Fox wasn't sure he'd make a different choice if he had to live through that again, doing it a second time would be unbearable.