Hicks smiled a little. "It was more... after mission debriefing than watching for entertainment. Where did we go wrong? Was Gorman a deliberate choice or was it just bad luck we got a green Lieutenant for that trip?" He shook his head. He was still undecided about Gorman. He knew others, like maybe Ripley, might be more uncharitable but it wasn't the first time they'd had a greenie. It just wasn't the kind of mission you sent a greenie on, even with an experienced Sergeant like Apone. But how much of his judgement was hindsight? It wasn't like they hadn't been on a bughunt before.
"Yeah," he said with a snort. "So if Hudson turns up, I ain't letting him watch it. He'll whine it makes him look bad." There was almost a bit of exasperated affection in his voice. Hudson had always been a whiner, from the first day he'd been assigned to the squad. But he got shit done, even if you sometimes had to give him a swift kick up the ass to get him moving. Besides, the whiners usually weren't the problem. It was the macho types that you had to keep an eye on. They were the ones who went to water when the shit hit the fan.
He raised an eyebrow at the tap but he didn't move away. "No," he said with a grimace. "I overheard them saying he was unsalvagable. I don't know whether they pulled his hard drive or not. They didn't put it in a new Bishop unit if they did." He twitched and his eyes darkened as he remembered the first time the Michael Weyland android had walked into his cell. Not that he'd realised it was an android at first. He'd thought it was Bishop come to get him out. He was fairly sure it had been deliberate. To see how he'd react, what he might say to someone he thought was an ally. Mind you, Weyland had fucked with him a lot on that score, sometimes coming in himself and sometimes sending in the android. Sometimes even sending in a Bishop unit. Though it had backfired on the man a bit. It had been a good way of getting his mind working and his concentration up, trying to work out whether Weyland was an android or the real thing.