Lawyer language in episode 9

People keyed in pretty quick on the weird way the hive mind phrased the stem cell thing, but this conversation reeks of lawyer talk to me.

Zosia, on phone\] Hi, Carol.

\[Carol\] Have you been spying on me?

\[Zosia\] Spying?

Right from the get go, she doesn’t say “no”. Huge red flag.

\[Carol\] There is a thing in my liquor cabinet.

\[Zosia\] What kind of thing?

\[Carol\] I don’t know. A plastic, rectangular… kinda tacky-looking… like something out of a James Bond movie. It sure as shit didn’t come with the cabinet. Did you put it there?

\[Zosia\] \[sighs\] Right. It wasn’t us, Carol. Do you remember May of 2011? You were freezing your eggs.

\[Carol\] Yeah. So?

\[Zosia\] The device is a movement sensor. It detects when the cabinet is opened, then records it. Again, we didn’t put it there.

\[Carol\] Helen.

\[Zosia\] Sorry, Carol.

\[Carol\] Um… \[stammers\] No, no, no. It’s all right. \[inhales sharply\] \[quieter\] I’ll call you later.

\[handset settles in cradle\]

At no point in the conversation does the hive mind actually say “no, we weren’t spying on you”. Instead they deflected the question by repeating it back to her. The hive mind is 100 percent spying on her, and Carol needs to get better at recognizing this language and asking follow up questions asap.