[In a flashback, a young River plays behind a couch while Simon works on a computer pad.]
We got outflanked by the Independent squad, and we're never gonna make it back to our platoon. [pauses] We need to resort to cannibalism.
That was fast. Don't we have rations or anything?
. . .
[River glances at her brother's homework.]
That's wrong.
It's from the book, River.
No, the book is wrong. This whole conclusion is fallacious.
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