Fodi at baldninja.com - Patterns in the Ivy
Belliard: Yes. Sally was the container for their core AI code. For some reason, they felt her code would develop itself more quickly if she were near you, though I can't fathom why.
Matt: So, I'm a pawn here?
Belliard: No more so than us. Our first zombie-DDoS attack may have destroyed the clone, but all it did was force her to rapidly transmit her code to another clone. Doing so made it develop too quickly for our current zombies to affect.
Matt: Wait. That would require a high-bandwidth signal, would it not?
Belliard: Yes...why?
You bastard. *You* killed Sally.