J: I expected you to call, Hank. Are you bringing the Artifact back?
H: I... No. But I figured I owed you more than silence.
J: No? Then I'm not interested in words.
H: You're angry. I get it. But you let me take it.
J: I didn't let you take it. I chose not to stop you. So I could understand who you were. Where you stood in all this. The betrayal was... not what I expected from you.
H: Jahan, I didn't want it to be like this. The Artifact-it's needed. The circumstances require it to be here where it can be studied. You know that.
J: The anomalies were, escalating before you took it, this is true. But now? You've disrupted everything. You thought you were going to make things better,, but you're meddling with something you don't understand.
H: I'm not doing this alone. Maha-- Dr. Corvus has been leading the research. We have an entire team. We're trying to stabilize it, Jahan. To stop the anomalies from worsening.
J: Maha. Of coarse. Is she as reckless as you? Or is she the one holding the leash while you play Savior?
H: That's not fair. Locking it in a vault wasn't the solution either. How long were you going to keep it hidden while the anomalies continued to grow?
J: Some things aren't solved, Hank. They simply are.
H: You weren't protecting anything by keeping it locked away.
J: So instead you chose to protect your misguided sense of purpose. And in doing so, you shattered something far older than either of us.
H: Jahan. I didn't mean to hurt you.
J: You dabble in ancient knowledge and think yourself an expert. I am ancient knowledge, in living flesh. Do you know what that Artifact means to me? What it means to my people? To the world? And for what? "Science experiments?"
H: I'm sorry. But you can't understand the present or protect the future when you're so entrenched in the past. This is bigger than whatever is between us, you have to understand that.
J: Don't be stupid, and don't insult me. I'm not some jilted woman, Hank. Get off your horse. This is not about us. This doesn't change what's been lost.
H: If you'd just...
J: No, Hank. If you've truly learned anything, prove it. Because next time we speak, it won't be words.
H: Jahan-
J: You cannot outrun the consequences of what you've done.
