"No, just an asshole. I'm continuously baffled about someone who could be so good at scientific theory and careful, methodical testing and pattern recognition and still go his whole life without managing to work out how to have a conversation where the person he's talking to didn't want to punch him in the face. At any rate," he says, because while taking potshots at Brainstorm while he is conveniently absent is cathartic as hell it isn't actually useful, "it's certainly possible. Though if they went to all the trouble of bringing us here, it surprises me that they didn't bother to hang around to pick us up. Maybe they wanted to give the Cetagandans something to run around in circles pulling their hair out over, I don't know."