Risk Taking
The Chairman sat back and watched as Charlie went through various system checks on Robocop before not giving the cyborg a choice in the matter of a sleep cycle. That done, Charlie turned and looked at him, concern evident on his face. "He'll be fine. Could have been worse... he's been through worse, really."
The Chairman nodded, knowing full well the truth of those words, as he studied Murphy's sleeping face. There was much he wanted to say on the matter, and many questions he still had on the nature of this project he's authorized without really thinking of the actual consequences to the people involved. What was it Bob Morton had said about placing candidates in strategic posistions? At the time, that had just been a concept... a means to an end. Something Morton would have... did deal with, that he'd signed off on after a presentation of the benefits and a disaster in the board room.
He had never met this man before today. Not really. To know who it was that had ended up killed by criminals and then used as the basis of a cyborg... it made a whole lot of difference, really.
"To be human is to risk." The words echoed in the silence as he continued to sit there, watching as Charlie traded out the dented chest plate with a new one.
He had never met Murphy the man, only what was left of him, here and now... and this morning, he finally had met the man. The Chairman smiled wryly as he stood up gingerly, at once reminded of the long night spent cooped up in an old factory with a sick child, worried parents, and a man that didn't particularly like him.
"Call me when he wakes up again."
Charlie nodded and turned to do something with a computer, likely running more diagnostics... his expression when he'd changed out the chest plate had been one of a man who didn't like what he saw.
The Chairman glanced at Robocop again, and then left the room. There was a visit he needed to make to Public Works... he needed to thank Diana for shanghaing him into a ride-along, as she'd been right about needing to see the world from street level again.