Chapter 82 - "HOJO & HAYNES INTERVIEW" - #000810

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MEETING TITLE: "HOJO & HAYNES INTERVIEW"
MEETING TRANSCRIPT #000810
Meeting Attendees: Professor Hojo, Mariella Haynes
Date of Interview: 08.10.00
Location of Interview: Room 102A, Floor 66, HQ
List of Acronyms:
Professor Hojo=H
Mariella Haynes=M
Intelligent Verbatim Transcript

[Begin Transcript 00:03:11]

START OF EXCERPT:

Professor Hojo (H): "Project S is refusing to come for therapies."

Mariella Haynes (M): "Well, I am not surprised."

H: "It is an absolute outrage. The results cannot be finalized without the remaining exposures scheduled."

M: "You've taken me off his exposure project. I will look over the results and give him his physicals but you've tied my hands."

H: "I know you two take field trips."

M: "I like him on my security detail. He likes to get out of town. It works well for both of us."

H: "You wasted a prime specimen of SOLDIER to shovel shit."

M: "Chau is my project. This is about Sephiroth."

[04:00]

H: "Tell him to come back."

M: "That won't accomplish anything. He doesn't listen to me."

H: "You can be convincing."

M: "With all due respect, you scared him. I don't think there is anything that I can say to change that. He's not going to bend again. Not like that. He would rather be sick. Probably he would rather die than come back."

H: "He's stubborn."

M: "I suppose that is a way to put it."

H: "Since he bonded with the other Firsts, the man has learned to say no even if it is the coward's way. Hollander's byproducts sullying my own. Disgusting."

M: "Perhaps he finally grew up."

H: "Once again, your emotions are clouding your judgment. I need him back in the labs, his mental state is almost inconsequential."

M: "You can't physically drag him in there without making things worse. Push enough and he will fight you, physically and then it is all over for you."

H: "No."

M: "Shinra doesn't pay us to trigger the destruction of this building."

H: "The agreements between Shinra and myself are not for you to assume."

[pause]

[05:00]

M: "Give Sephiroth time and he might come back for an examination but he won't step into a tank again."

H: "I have given him time."

M: "Sephiroth won't do anything he doesn't want to anymore."

H: "My patience is gone. I want my results. Shinra wants results. Other projects can only distract me for so long."

M: "I don't know what to tell you."

H: "I don't want to treat him like a beaten dog now hand shy and ducking his reasons to live."

[pause]

H [cont.]: "You will convince him to come back."

M: "He won't listen to me like that."

H: "You will convince him."

M: "He's hurt. You left him alone for six hours in that room. He spent the next two days in the ICU. He might not fully recover physically, even now. Who knows? He won't even come in for a regular appointment."

H: "He should have been stronger."

M: "He is still human with that level of mako exposure."

[Hojo laughs.]

H: "Human?"

M: "Even with his…modifications, he is still a biological human. He reacts like a human being. He is, fundamentally, human in his DNA makeup."

H: "He is superior. He is the slaughterer of thousands. He is the strongest being to walk this planet. Anything that is human about him is gone."

[pause]

H [cont.]: "And you will get him back in my labs cooperating like the good boy he is."

M: "There is nothing I can say."

H: "Well, you will have to be creative."

[06:00]

M: "You need to continue to give him time. That's the only way this works."

H: "I'll give you two months. After that, I'll see what outside influences I can use to start pressuring him."

M: "I don't understand."

H: "Oh I do. You want time? You get your time. Two months."

M: "He's not going to come back-"

H: "If he doesn't, I'll make him so sick he won't be able to fight me. I'll drag him back. Although for you, it won't matter. You'll be distracted by more pressing personal matters."

M: "Excuse me?"

H: "Anyone is replaceable. Aren't you aware? Life will always continue on. It's a magical thing."

[pause]

H [cont.]: "Here is a further carrot. You do this. You get him back and I will pull and approve your requested leave."

M: "You just threatened my life. How the hell am I supposed to even take you seriously?"

H: "No, no, no, that's not what I said. I said how amazing one piece of a life can be replaced with another. Don't blow this out of proportion."

M: "I can't believe you."

H: "And what choice do you have?"

M: "You do realize that Sephiroth trusts me because I've never truly hurt him?"

[Hojo laughs.]

H: "You are still holding onto that lie? Your hands are stained as much as mine."

M: "Aren't you trying to convince me to do something?"

H: "Aren't you forgetting the child that is wrapped up in this negotiation? The child that you desperately want?"

M: "R&D will never let me go for four months."

[07:00]

H: "Do you really think that it is smart to attempt to get pregnant with a child and do mako exposures at the same time? It isn't my area but I don't think it is wise. I'll get you off for a year after you show me a pretty little stick with a double line on it."

M: "You won't."

H: "I guess we will have to find out. Thea is certainly not able to do her duty."

M: "Don't you dare bring her into this."

H: "My condolences. I've seen your reasons when you've taken time off."

M: "You need to stop talking about my personal life like you are part of it."

H: "Fine. You want the hard truth? Sephiroth. Back in my tank. Two months. Consider what you get in return. Consider what happens if you don't. You can be a rational woman. See the truth here."

[Chair scrapes.]

H [cont.]: "He is just an escaped animal. He always has been. Lure him back and you get your reward. It's really that elementary."

[End of Excerpt. End of Interview recording at 00:07:27. Transcribed by Edin Morse. Reviewed and verified by Professor Hojo.]