[...Just saying it like that is enough to set off suspicion in Jane's mind. How could the Batterwitch not be looking for her? Whether to induct her back under her control or kill her for somehow escaping, or...there's no way. She's a ruthless alien woman who doesn't stop until she gets exactly what she wants, and has the lifespan to wait if necessary. But Jane does believe Bolton - about the Benefactors, at least. Obviously this slow, gruesome slaughter of champions was too important to be uprooted by a dictatorfish.

Jane looks into the cup of coffee as she considers her options. One - the memories to come will show her that she and her friends were triumphant, and they made it to the new world and the Condesce is dead. Two - The Benefactors and the Condesce are one and the same, and this is all her own project, conspicuously scrubbed clean of red, to lead to some ridiculous end. Three - she just doesn't know Jane is here, and alive, which means that at some point, she was released from control. But how...]

...Can I ask you something else, too? Just...while I'm thinking about it. Can the PIPs do what the Tiaratop did to me? Can C.E.C.E. do that to us?