“I just got back from getting Steven’s gem. I wasn’t there when it started, I wasn’t sure what was going on or who to ask,” Lambert explains. “So I just grabbed Childermass and told him to get me to Ignatius so we could get him somewhere else. Couldn’t exactly move on his own, so whatever was going on, moving him away from him was a good idea.

And then he pauses.

“You know the chip’s in her head, right? You were really going to melt Rita’s brain?”