[He's not quite so far gone as to call, or even consider, himself expendable... but the Original talk is likely to stay around. It was just a fact of what they were as replicas, after all.]

[He nods.]

He mentioned something about being 6 months ahead of schedule, but I don't think he died before he came here. The death of the Fon Master was written in the Score... and it wasn't wrong. And that would mean he'd be sick here, too.