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Mr. Quantuple: So, they had these grand plans to spice up their theme park with A.I., and I had made a proposal that would involve sentient robots.
Heidi: Truly sentient?
Mr. Quantuple: Yes, the most lifelike robots ever seen. It would be groundbreaking. I delivered a rough prototype.
Heidi: And?

We see a flash-back with the Faceworld crew scoffing at one of the robots seen during the Faceworld adventure, but without any guns.
Mr. Quantuple: They couldn't believe the robot was truly sentient, and thought it was a scam. Someone deliberately broke the prototype, causing it to misbehave. Then they scrapped the original plans and severely watered it down to rely on tried-and-true contemporary A.I. tools.

Mr. Quantuple: As if that wasn't bad enough, they violated the original contract and only paid me a fraction of what was promised. However, in the meantime I had planted backdoors in their whole inventory and planning system, their security practices were laughable.
Max, at Zhang: Did he just call our product “watered down?”

Mr. Quantuple: Them insisting on this ridiculous need-to-know principle, made it rather easy to swap things around and alter programming without anyone noticing it before it was too late.
Zhang: The A-10 Warthog was also your doing then?
Mr. Quantuple: Oh yes, I had a lot of fun. Those cameras had to go somewhere…

Heidi: You have a strange concept of “fun.” Someone has been killed, and it could have been much worse. A failed project does not justify murder.
Mr. Quantuple: It's not just this project, I have had enough of this world, the whole of it! There seems to be this wave of incompetence these days, growing stronger and stronger, idiots replacing knowledgeable people.

Mr. Quantuple: I wanted to use Faceworld to expose this problem, and I think I succeeded. But almost nobody got the point — because again, they're too much of an idiot! Only you three seem smart enough to reach a higher level…
Max: Ehh… thanks, I guess?