Laughing Man and Motoko in “Unfinished Business”

I'll tell you. It was a simple piece of mail I stumbled across on the net that began the whole thing. What I'd found was a blackmail document that had probably been sent to Serano Genomics. It was armed with a thesis that was a comparative of the inadequacy of Serano micromachines versus the effectiveness of the Murai vaccine.

Motoko

Then the original Laughing Man was the person who authored it?

You could put it like that, I suppose. "I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only I alone am able to see it"

Motoko

Dziga Vertov. He was a Russian filmmaker, wasn't he?

Yes. I was kidding myself by thinking it was my personal mission to prove and circulate that information, vital data I alone had happened upon.

Motoko

Failing spectacularly. The pure innocent mediator grew dejected at the base nature of the social system and he turned mute.