[Gee, Ford, he has no idea how working with you could go wrong! Oh wait. Yes, he does. He knows there's something, some reason he abandoned the project. There must be. It dances around the back of his mind just out of reach, but he can grasp it just enough to know that Ford Pines is dangerous and being his research partner in any capacity is a bad idea.

And yet... Ford was -- is-- his friend. Whatever it is that happened that he can't entirely remember, it can be averted. There's no reason it has to happen again. He has to believe that, because if he can't then he'll have absolutely nothing to hope for in this place at all and then it really will be unbearable.]

Folks' bodies aren't like machines. I don't know if I'd be much help to you unless you've got any fancy medical doodads you need built.

[He'll just be wary. He's always wary now. First sign of anything being hinky and he's out.]