bork

"You Look Familiar!"

"We've been together for every team adventure in the past"

alright then, Jax (?????)

This might fix your heart…or break it even more

If you saw the last one, you know why 💔

nothing was okay but they were there.

“Good memories can do a lot. Hold on to them… and cherish the people around you. You never know when they’’ll be gone.”

The original line is delivered by the last human: it's Ted's sad internal lament that he's become unable to even express his pain, which is its own form of psychological horror. It's AM's final, cruelest joke. But here the line is instead delivered BY the AI. Caine did his best to please the humans. But the humans just WON'T stop complaining! And that's torture for him. So rather than listening to them, which would take willingness to reflect and improve, he just takes their mouths away, so they can't complain anymore.

Rather than being a cruelty inflicted on the humans, it reframes the whole line as a way for the AI to protect its ego. It's Caine going "la la la I can't hear you." It's not a clever form of torture, it's just pathetic and childish. Caine's ego is his biggest flaw. And it's what gets him killed.