"Good," Jack replies. He sounds less distracted than before, now that he can take his time with the pipe dreaming. He's also blissfully unaware of Sinclair's sadistic plot to wrest the story of his past out of him, so there's that.

He's not going to declare an unqualified success just yet, though. The bathysphere is more complicated than anything he's hacked before, it's still perfectly possible to non-painfully screw up, and he's trying not to do that so often that he straight up breaks the thing.

As he works, he ronch-ronches his way loudly through the rest of the bag of chips.