“What you’re talking about, rapid healing, and if I understand you, lower body temperature to simulate a corpse, are you sure it’s not the lack of any infection being able to take hold allows the body to heal without distraction?” She had to go from the biological perspective, obviously. “That, and the inhuman ability to heal quickly, not an unheard of inhuman ability.” She’s not sure what the metric is for incredible, and basing her theories on the individual physical symptoms of vampirism, Jemma’s only theorizing.

It’s a little like bouncing ideas off of Fitz, but Fitz doesn’t believe conscience does make cowards of us all. The Doctor is talking about experimentation on people; there is no conscience.

He’s convinced she’s winning somehow, when all she feels is lost. There’s a sensastion between her shoulder blades, like a chill. She sounds far more confident than she is, “Really, how has SHIELD taken over? Where are the operatives?”

The crash of the chair isn’t that audible given the fullness of the room. “Temper, temper, Doctor.”