- SAREN: The Conduit is the key to your destruction! Sovereign needs my help to find it.
- (Long pause.)
- SHEPARD: Excuse me. Did you say he needs your help to find it?
- SAREN: That’s right.
- SHEPARD: So… uh… this is going to sound like a silly question, but…
- SAREN: Yes?
- SHEPARD: Why are you helping him find it?
- SAREN: What?
- SHEPARD: If it’s the key to our destruction, and if he finds it he makes us all his slaves… then why don’t you just… not help him find it?
- (Pause.)
- SHEPARD: Because, then, y’know… he would instantly lose. And nobody would have to die, or become a slave.
- SAREN: N… uh… no! Sovereign needs me! I’ve been promised a reprieve from the inevitable!
- SHEPARD: A reprieve from the inevitable. Saren, you are so incredibly stupid. Just think about what you just said. If it’s inevitable, you can’t possible be excused!
- SAREN: No more word games! Sovereign is a machine. It thinks like a machine. If I can prove my value, then I become a resource worth maintaining. There is no other logical conclusion!
- SHEPARD: Your conclusion is completely illogical! I’ll say this again – just don’t help him find the conduit and then he can’t invade! I can’t believe the galaxy is on the brink of destruction just because you failed to grasp this huge flaw in Sovereign’s plan.
- SAREN: I refuse to accept that I missed this. It can’t be that simple! I may have lost all my credibility, but I can still fling blue balls about the place! You would comprehend simple logic and doom any remnants of self-respect I still had to complete annihilation. And for this, you must die!
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