I normally wouldn't even believe it, but... Why go through the trouble of trying to understand books on cloning and medicine if you were faking it, or pulling some kind of... elaborate prank? And why wear those collars everywhere?

[As it stands, he has nothing but empathy for them. Trying to pick up knowledge on cloning wasn't exactly on his to-do list otherwise, but he can't be happy without trying for them.

It doesn't matter that he's not up front with all of them about it. What matters to him is results.]