[Five years ago, huh.] You're still probably one of the closest in our timeline, but I guess that makes sense since Athena told me the same thing. But sometimes CERES pulls people from different points in time based on what data they can recover so...[Shrug. Stop fumbling over words, Hiro.]

Athena and I have kinda talked about some of the tech back wherever you're from. Mostly Widget, actually, which is kinda cool but it's not San Fransokyo. [#bias] I know you're a lawyer, Phoenix, but what kind of case would involve robots? [A pause.] And if you're a lawyer back home, what're you doing here anyway?