“So, you’re telling us you had no idea of what this guy could do until he broke out of the basement that night?”
“Not really,” Noah Birnbaum tried to explain the next morning in the interview room.
Tommy and Orrin confronted him with the arrest reports from the MCC to get his reaction. “Keep in mind that the prosthetics were introduced to us as beneficial devices. The question of their ability to do damage was never raised. Look, suppose we learned that the limbs had that superhuman quality. We would think it would be an added benefit to the patient, supposing he fell down a flight of stairs, or was involved in an accident. We would have never questioned the moral aspect, as to whether the limbs might be used for illegal purposes.”
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