"Experiment? What experiment?"
"I'm not sure, but they were just documenting our actions, clearly recording how we killed that Mih. Whatever experiment they're doing, we've become their test subjects."
At this, Charles's mind flashed with the image of the half-faced assistant chef. He died... did he fail the experiment?
"Do you think... these guys were once people from the Foundation?"
Richard's guess sparked an idea in Charles's mind, and the records of Experiment 096 surfaced in his thoughts. The Foundation had a test subject put on 096 and observed the changes.
If that scenario applied to their current situation, then the one who had just died was the test subject, and they were playing the role of 096. With that, everything connected. It explained why the Foundation would send in their own kind, why other monsters were being held in the opposite cells, and also why they hadn't been killed yet.
