Sinclair turns around, reflexively taking a step back. Jack is definitely intimidating when he wants to be.
He shakes his head, still somewhat at a loss for words. "Nothing I particularly understand," he says with a nervous laugh.
Jack is not amused.
"It's a... a trigger phrase of some sort. That's all I know for sure." And he doesn't dare say it out loud, for a multitude of reasons. The foremost of which being that he's not sure if it works on Jack and if it does, that's not anything he wants to even touch. Even if it could come in handy, even if his business sense screams that this could be an enormous asset to him, no. The idea of using it actually turns his stomach.
But he still needs to know.
"...You were conditioned," he says, and it's a statement but it's out there for Jack to contradict if he wants.
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He shakes his head, still somewhat at a loss for words. "Nothing I particularly understand," he says with a nervous laugh.
Jack is not amused.
"It's a... a trigger phrase of some sort. That's all I know for sure." And he doesn't dare say it out loud, for a multitude of reasons. The foremost of which being that he's not sure if it works on Jack and if it does, that's not anything he wants to even touch. Even if it could come in handy, even if his business sense screams that this could be an enormous asset to him, no. The idea of using it actually turns his stomach.
But he still needs to know.
"...You were conditioned," he says, and it's a statement but it's out there for Jack to contradict if he wants.