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(door beeping)
- No, we're not going any higher than five.
This is a courtesy call, do you understand?
I will get a warrant if I need to.
Yes, you think about it.
- Miss Barrett, Charles Rose, E Foods--
- Our office manager's through there.
- Oh, no, no, no, I'm here to see you.
- I don't drink.
- Have you ever tasted coffee?
(liquid sloshing)
- Is that?
- Real coffee from the beans, double roasted.
- I can't accept this.
- It's a shame, once it's brewed it
will go to waste.
- Well, where's yours?
- Already had my hit today.
- Where did you get this?
- Pre-war collections.
- Dumps.
- We're trying to expand our company.
I hear they your department's in the progress
of bringing back the extinct.
E Foods is on the cutting edge of a revolutionary idea.
We have real ingredients,
with real plants,
authentic flavours,
health benefits that other synthetics cannot rival.
You have the technology,
and we are more than willing to pay.
- Mister-- - Rose.
- That plant, that isn't plastic.
Have you ever seen an animal?
- A cockroach.
- Follow me.
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These are animals,
preserved specimens.
They're complex organisms to build from scratch.
We're short on funds.
Difficult for politicians to justify this kind of spend.
I need to dedicate the resources we have
to bringing back a superstar,
the tiger.
That's a large, orange cat.
A monkey,
that's a smaller, human-like creature.
Something the people at the top cannot ignore,
not a bean plant, or a potato.
- Won't they need
food to eat?
- Ideally, yes.
Which brings us to phase two.
Our tiger can be modified to enjoy certain substances.
Coffee, for instance.
I'd be willing to accept the right
over a sponsorship for that,
but you'd need to fund the development
of the creature first.
- Our campaign, it's based on
authenticity,
real, wholesome ingredients.
We can't sponsor a modified creature.
We'd need the real thing.
- Yesterday's modification
is today's real thing, Mr. Rose.
These animals are what we make them.
They need to fit our requirements.
If the eastern spotted quoll wants to live,
there has to be a reason for it.
That's the new survival of the fittest.
You think about it,
or your competitors will.
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- She's synthetic.
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