Joker: So you went into the geth consensus? Like, virtual reality?
Shepard: Yeah. It was strange, but I got out all right.
Joker: Did you? I mean, how would you know?
Shepard: How would I know what?
Joker: If you really got out! See, if the geth experience everything virtually, then you could only think you're in the real world. What if this--like, everything you're seeing now--is a simulation?
EDI: Shepard, I can confirm that this is the real world.
Joker: Oh, okay, well that'll solve that. Man, good thing we have an unshackled AI around to tell us what reality is.
EDI: Perhaps I missed some salient information.
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Shepard: Have you heard anything about Earth?
Ashley: We have reports coming all the time on what's going on. Half are wild speculation, and half are probably too optimistic to be true.
Shepard: We have to believe that we can do something.
Ashley: When I thought you were dead, I lost hope. I'm telling you. But when you came back? I was ready to believe anything. I mean, maybe this problem can't be solved by some grunt shooting the bogeyman in the face, but if you think it might help, I'm game.
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Kaidan: Are you flirting with me, Commander? Wait, wait! Don't tell me. Let me live in the illusion.
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Kaidan: I want to kick the Reapers straight to hell. Cerberus, too. People near death say their lives flash before their eyes... The future flashed for me--the anguish, the families, the children... It made me determined to live.
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Shepard: I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Garrus: We both know you need a clear head to win a war. There's no room for mistakes here. You should catch some shut-eye.
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Ashley: I don't know what you are... not since they got their hands on you. Is it really you? Would you even know if they were controlling you somehow?
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