BRISTLECONE: Ennesby, I have completed my initial analysis of the stack of data you provided.
I believe I have identified the elephant in the room, but I also found a fly in the soup.
ENNESBY: This sounds like a new spin on the old "good news, bad news" ploy.
BRISTLECONE: In that format the good news is "I found the bad news." The bad news is "I found worse news."
PARA: Is this how you two talk over a direct connection? Because this handshake protocol is awful.