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Chapter 6: Interrogation

The room is mostly quiet, save from the lieutenant's voice making its way from the interrogation room to the two of them through the speakers. It's becoming increasingly frustrated as time goes on, the deviant unwilling to say anything to the human. Connor doesn't blame the android at all for that, even if he does feel somewhat sympathetic towards Anderson, who's merely trying to get some answers to what happened at the crime scene. The camera in the corner of the interrogation room blinks every now and then, showing that it's recording, however, Connor knows that there's going to be nothing worth watching on it, the deviant has barely moved since being brought in. The cop sitting in one of the chairs in front of where Connor is standing, huffs, clearly showing his own irritation at the lack of progress, but neither Connor nor Detective Reed – the last person in the room – pay it any attention. Connor wouldn't know what to say in response to it even if he were allowed to say something, so he counts it as a small mercy that he won't be expected to comment on small human things like that.

Connor can also sense Detective Reed shooting him a look every now and then, and unwilling to deal with whatever the human is trying to start, Connor is trying his best to ignore them. Thankfully, it's not that hard a feat, especially considering that Connor isn't exactly 'all there' at the moment. Instead, most of his attention is being captured by the small program he's busy assembling in his processor. It's nothing too fancy, but it's more than enough to keep the majority of his focus away from the detective. Plus, as a bonus, Connor can sense Reed getting annoyed by his poker face, and if that isn't motivation enough to keep ignoring him, Connor doesn't know what is.

Again, Connor can be kind of petty when he wants to be.

'I_know_you_were_abused_by_your_owner' ADDED. SECTION_A 12

'If_you_confess_there_might_be_something_I_can_do_to_help_you' ADDED. SECTION_C 4

'You_don't_have_to_be_afraid' ADDED. SECTION_C 5

He logs the phrases into the program, sorting out the order and shuffling some around when he realises that it doesn't flow as well as he initially thought it did. To be honest, it doesn't really matter what he says, as long as it makes sense in context and also sounds vaguely comforting to the police officer, the lieutenant, and Detective Reed's ears. It's a fairly risky plan, but Connor thinks he can pull it off provided that nothing goes horribly wrong, which is always a possibility. Though it definitely helps that neither Reed nor Anderson know jack shit about androids, something that will work in his favour. Connor doesn't know a great deal about the other cop sitting there, but a quick scan reveals that he's never actually owned or worked with an android before, so Connor decides that he's probably not going to cause an issue in his plan. The cameras are the next potential problem, but Connor figures he can probably just replace certain parts of the footage with a loop should it come to that, which hopefully it shouldn't. He finishes off the script with a small mental flourish and checks it over once more before he's interrupted by the lieutenant coming through the door.

"We're wastin' our time interrogating a machine, we're gettin' nothing out of it!"

There that word was again. Machine. While Connor doesn't allow himself to react outwardly, he can feel himself tense slightly at the words, even despite knowing it was coming. He has lived through this exact situation before after all. He's getting used to it, hearing the word that is, but he's not quite there yet. In fact, Connor doesn't know if he ever will be, but as long as he doesn't look like he's affected, then he should be fine. His head swivels to Detective Reed, knowing what he's about to say before he even opens his mouth.

"Could always try roughing it up a little. After all, it's not human."

Douchebag.

"Androids don't feel pain" Connor half-lies, unwilling to let Reed know that deviants do suffer pain more than regular androids do, even if it's not a great deal more. It seems like the type of information that the man would use for entirely the wrong reasons. "You would only damage it, and that wouldn't make it talk." He almost says 'him' instead of 'it' the first time, but manages to catch himself at the very last moment. From then, he doesn't look at any human when he talks about the habit deviants have of self-destructing under stress, instead, Connor watches the android. That's what he's trying to do here after all. He won't let it self-destruct again, it's the whole reason he's even doing this in the first place.