Uncle should have ben shaking in fear at the show of violence that Cassie was both displaying and promising upon his body. Any reasonably sane human would not only have been sweating and gasping, but also quite possibly urinating themselves. Not Uncle. In fact, he seemed rather amused by the ordeal has he hung there, dangling from her gripping hands. "Interesting how you automatically assume that I had anything to do with Lucien's little accident, Castille." Despite his obvious physical discomfort of being lifted up by his shirt, he calmly stuck his hands in the pockets of his worn and filthy lab coat as though he was about to take a casual stroll around the tunnels. "The device I had him place was a sensor, yes. Should it have exploded in the fashion Toni described? No. Since it should not have done what it so obviously did, I can only put forth that either the robots had something to do with it or there was some other factor on top of that tower to cause the explosion. Those options are far more preferable to the notion that someone else in the mission had something to do with it, someone who stood to either gain a great deal by his death or had a score to settle with him. Not that you or I can really think of who else on that mission might fall into that category. I can not only show you the schematics I drew up while creating it, I can show it's 'little brother', a more portable version that is easy to hide."

He took a hand out of his pocket long enough to gesture to the table where indeed, a small mass of wires and bits sat half assembled. "The purpose of the device was to help find additional ways to unlock your memory, Cassie. A laudable goal, if I do say so myself. You can review the blueprints yourself if you'd like."

Sticking his hand back into his pocket, he shrugged. Or at least, he shrugged as best as he was able to while being hoisted in the air by a cyborg. "Or you may continue to threaten me while snarling and spitting in so impressive a manner, which if seen by anyone else who happens to wander in will due little to help your cause of convincing the other Colonists that you are no threat to them. You could even kill me here and now and walk away. Of course... if you did that... you'd never find out I propose to save your beloved Lucien's life."