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 :There is a "completely different" possibility that Hasegawa had been working on the Chrysalis for years, and killed Jamie when she found out (because he's all evil and wants everyone to choke on dead air and foul water, muahahaha). Ahem. My point is, the initial research probably didn't have "Daodan" and "Chrysalis" written all over it. --[[User:Geyser|geyser]] ([[User talk:Geyser|talk]]) 18:42, 7 June 2020 (CEST)
 ::I'm not following your reason for thinking that they didn't have a firm idea already in mind about creating the Chrysalis by the time they went to the Syndicate. Why apply for work at a criminal organization if they didn't, and why would the Syndicate be interested? The Syndicate funded their work because they wanted the Chrysalis. --[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] ([[User talk:Iritscen|talk]]) 02:59, 8 June 2020 (CEST)
+:::Kerr may not have been the brightest bulb in this story, but he's telling us this: "Your father and I were criminals, funded by the Syndicate (we couldn't get backing from any legitimate source). They left us alone for the most part. We didn't think they were interested in our work. (We were wrong; they had been watching us very closely. When they figured out what the Chrysalis was, etc.)". Even if Kerr is wrong and the bad guys were aware of the Chrysalis's potential all along (and were merely waiting for the project to be "ripe for takeover"), on the face of it they were just funding Hasegawa&Kerr's research just as they would have funded any financially promising "rogue science". If Hasegawa was a bright scientist with some achievements as a biologist, then naturally the Network would have been considering him as a potential asset even before Jamie's death, Chrysalis or no Chrysalis. (Like, I dunno, he may have been involved in hypo spray development, for example, and the Network were eager to experiment with hypo-drugs.) They may even have made him an offer in the past, which he refused, because children and idealism. With Jamie gone, and Hasegawa both a murderer and a zone-trespasser, the Network's head-hunters have a much stronger argument for getting Hasegawa on board -- and he agrees, because it conveniently pulls him out of trial, and gives him a lab where he can experiment on anything he wants -- including the supercure that he thinks he owes to Jamie --, without being tied down by TCTF supervision, reports to WCG, etc. His initial "grant" with the Network didn't have to be Chrysalis-related at all (that's why I say it may be useful to imagine what he and Kerr had been working on before Jamie's death) -- they're hiring him merely because he is a capable scientist and because it's an optimal moment to snatch him. At least on the face of it, that's what it looks like. Hasegawa betrays the bad guys' trust by shifting from his initial "work" to the Chrysalis, and they repay him by taking over. --[[User:Geyser|geyser]] ([[User talk:Geyser|talk]]) 13:43, 9 June 2020 (CEST)
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