"Maybe 'cause we know how it feels to have never had control over a damn thing in our lives." George would know, having been manufactured, pieced together in a lab, fabricated for the express purpose of being set upon her brother. Tim would know, having been always been the subject of someone else's whims - nameless doctors, Alex's puppet-stringing, Jay's investigations, Brian's static-laced warnings, the machinations of something utterly beyond his conception.

"Maybe we don't anyone else to have to live with that."

They had to deal with it alone.

No one else should have to.