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Burnham: I received no warning that I'd be transferred to another prison facility, which is customary. Then my shuttle changed course halfway through the journey.
 
Lorca: Question is, what am I gonna do with you? If I put you in the brig someone's gonna die, and I don't have the time for that kind of distraction. You have training in high-level quantum physics, don't you? My engineers tell me it's gonna take three days to clear the lightning bugs out of the prisoner shuttle. I have something on deck that requires every trained mind available. You're gonna help us out.
 
BURNHAM: No, thank you. Respectfully, I owe a debt for my crime and it'd be best... I'd prefer to serve my time without getting involved.
 
LORCA: Huh. You think I care what your preferences are? Until your vessel's repaired, you'll be assigned to quarters and put to work. I'm not a chauffeur. There's no free rides on my ship. You were once a Starfleet officer. I will use you or anything else I can to achieve my mission.
 
Lorca: To win the war, of course. To send everyone home, safe and happy. Dismissed.
 
[Quarters]

LANDRY: You're on day shift. Escort at 0800 hours. When you're not working, you're confined to quarters.
 
(Doors close. Burnham lies down on a bed. Doors open.)

Tilly: Lights. This is so neat. They er, they told me, because of my special needs, that I couldn't have a roommate, which was kind of a letdown, because a roommate is like an automatic built-in friend, and then they told me I was gonna have a roommate, and so now I guess that's you, and er... Hi, I'm I'm Cadet Sylvia Tilly. I talk when I'm nervous. My instructors advised me to work on that.
 
Tilly: I'm trying to decide if I should tell you that you took my bed.
 
Tilly: I know, they look the same, but, er, I'm allergic to polyester, and viscoelastic polyurethane foam. It results in chronic snoring. This is why I wasn't supposed to have a roommate.
 
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