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Eberts didn’t bother explaining in detail. He continued in a calm voice, "Let’s just say it’s a hypothetical scenario. If I hadn’t intervened, if X-16 hadn’t stormed into your room in time, you would have died in that prison fight. And it wouldn’t have been quick or clean. That assassin wanted you both dead and alive, a special kind of twisted, which those fools somehow all agreed on."
"Then, when angry workers saw your mutilated body, they would’ve stormed the prison and held you up high. The workers would have rallied around you... They might have even taken over several key sites, like this prison. The warden wouldn’t resist. He might’ve even joined them in silence."
Spielberg’s throat bobbed. "And?"
He wanted to know what came next.
"Then, the same thing that has already happened countless times would happen…" said Eberts, shrugging as he pressed the ‘play’ button.
The images resumed.
Before the crowd crossed the security line, a commander...
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