'Hah, I bet,' Cosima snorts. She's never been hugely interested in politics beyond the broad strokes, but it's not hard to see that any group of people which could engineer in themselves the potential for effective immortality would become a huge political presence.

She also makes note of the fact that Handy's able to evade giving a comprehensive history of what exactly made it politically complicated. So, you can't lie outright, but you can talk around the truth if you're careful. She doesn't prod any further in that direction; fascinating as it would be to learn the history of an alien species, she's focussed on the matter at hand.

'Ok, so, the accident this Doctor of yours had-- it induced regeneration?'