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Nick: Somehow I anticipated this would be a negotiation. What are your conditions?
Colonel Lionel Barker: First, I must be allowed to be present on the bridge.

Barker: In a crisis, it will take too long to relay information back and forth, even over the ship's internal communications network. To read the pulse, I should be near the heart.

Nick: I'm reluctant to let you out of that cell, but that request is reasonable. It makes sense for you to hear and see everything as it happens. But you'll remain in irons the whole time.

Nick: Anything else?
Barker: Yes. I would ask that Esther Matusevitch and Victor Brown should accompany me.