I'm sorry, Shinji; perhaps I shouldn't have let..."
No, no! It's all right! ... It's ALL RIGHT! ... I HAD to see her; I had to know, you see, to find out finally if she was Rei! But..., but ... she's not Rei. She doesn't remember anything that Rei would know. She didn't know about the music player. She doesn't even know me! She's not Rei. I can't call her Rei. I..., I'll ... call her Ayanami. That would be best. Ayanami. Not Rei. Not ... Rei.
Shinji, we tried to tell you. We told you that Rei had not come back from Unit-01.
Yes, yes..., I know. I didn't believe you, because I knew that I had saved Rei. I did save Rei! And then Ayanami came, and I heard her voice! She called me. She called me by my name: Shinji! How could I have known she wasn't Rei? How could she not have been Rei? So I went with her. Of course I did; I thought you were all lying to me, so I went with R..., with Ayanami.
If there had been time, if you had stayed, you must understand that we would have told you about the Aya..., about Ayanami. Nerv create or activate a new clone when required; she's just the latest - a replacement for one before her who was lost.
I still wouldn't have believed you.
But wait! You say Ayanami was created? Created recently? I suppose that's what cloning means - but I've never had to think about it. So she was created as she is now? That's why she's so strange, isn't it! She's been created, and ... I expect ... programmed somehow to understand and speak and operate an Eva and obey orders ... and that's it. She doesn't know anything else. She doesn't know anything else because she's never had the chance to learn anything else! That's why she didn't read! She's like a neglected child; she should be learning from those around her; she should havepeople around her!
But Rei wasn't like that. Perhaps because she was the first, perhaps she was created younger, and did have the opportunity to grow up like a child! I should ask ... her. ... No, I can't, can I... But I know that I saved Rei; I just need to find her, or to understand where she is. I wish..., I wish I could have proof. I know I rescued her. I brought her back from inside the angel, so we must have been together in Unit-01. She was in my arms! But then..., the next thing I knew was waking up surrounded by guards, and being told that Rei wasn't there with me. But she was! I was holding her - it made me so happy! I don't know why they didn't get her out, or why they couldn't find her, or what had happened to her...
But then, at Nerv, Vice Commander Fuyutsuki told me that she is still in Unit-01! He told me other things too, which I found hard to understand; it all made me crazy. He said my mother was in Unit-01 as well - my mother! - Rei and my mother, both there. But I was there, too - why am I out of Unit-01 and they are still inside? Why is it different for them and me? What are they doing in there? It was then that he told me that Rei and Ayanami were both clones of my mother! But why? Why clone my mother? And why are they there in the Eva when I'm here? I want to rescue them! I want to go back to Unit-01! Perhaps I can get them out; at least let me try.
No Shinji, that will not be allowed; you cannot be allowed near Unit-01 or any Evangelion. Whatever the reason, we have seen that it is too dangerous. It seems that you have the capability, when you enter an Evangelion, to end the world.
...
End ... the ... world?
Me?
Is that ... what was happening ... after Kaworu ... died?
Yes, Shinji; the first time it was stopped by Kaworu using the Lance of Cassius; but this time it was only stopped by getting you out of the Evangelion.
Is this..., is this why ... people hate me now? Kaworu said they hated me; he said it was because everyone thinks the ruin he showed me when I was at Nerv was my fault. The Geofront ruined; Tokyo-3 ruined... My fault...
My fault? How was it my fault? What did I do? That wasn't even like this time. All I did then was rescue Rei, and then... Then - nothing; nothing else; I woke up here with guns pointed at me. Why? What did I do?