Eight...has no idea where America is. But he thinks he knows what he's talking about. His people have something like that...

"Oh. I see."

...except the NSS is supposed to operate in more or less total secrecy so he can't actually elaborate. He wasn't really officially inducted anyway.

"Well, there are some jobs that take anyone who can...did you say 'human jobs?'"

Isn't he a human? Eight hasn't really processed that humans, a species he thought were extinct, are just out and walking around. Now he has a feeling very much like someone just popped up out of nowhere and lobbed a burst bomb at his face.