In a bar outside of Seattle, Lydecker was drinking while remembering Max and Zack. Lydecker wanted to get her out just as much as Logan. He knew Manticore was the only way to save her. It was hard enough for him to blow the DNA lab, which held the DNA of all the X5s, but it was harder to see Max die.

Lydecker still haven't gotten over the deaths of his wife, Jack, Eva, Ben, Tinga, and his other "children" to Manticore.

He didn't want to kill Eva. The pressure from what was happening around him made him do it. He knew Max killed Ben, so he would kill others anymore or return to Manticore and end up like the X2s. Madam X caused the death of the others.

Lydecker remembered when Max and him talked at the genetic conference:

"Oh. I see. Is this your area of specialty, genetics?" she said.

"I've done some work in the field.

"Really?"

"With children... Gifted children."

"How gratifying."

"I guide them as best I can. But mostly, I provide a framework in which they can flourish."

"Must be a challenge."

"Oh, it is. You know, it's always the highly intelligent ones who most lack discipline."

"Maybe they figure they're smart enough to think for themselves."

"Ah, they're still children. They don't always act in their own best interest."

They talked again when she and Zack captured him thinking he got Brin. Max stayed with him because she knew Zack will kill him of he was left with Lydecker.

"How severe are they? The seizures, I mean."

"Bad sometimes."

"We have treatments now, you know."

"Do you make house calls, or should I go to Manticore for my meds?"

"Would it really be as bad as all that?"

"How can you even ask me that? You tortured us, beat us down."

"You were in training to become a soldier.

"We were children."

"And you're remembering it through a child's eyes."

"I remember Eva dead on the floor shot by the gun in your hand. "

"You'll never know how much it pained me to have to do that."

"Spare me."

"It was the best of you that ran away that night."

"Yeah, well, we wanted to start a rock band."

"Do you want to spend your life running?"

"What I do."

"Well, you don't have to, you know. You can always come home."

"Get it through your head--I'd rather die than go back there."

Now Madam X had Max and Zack and hoped they were alive. He hoped they would resist the reprogramming and escape Manticore again.

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