Database: Transcript of Dr. Muller Interrogation

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WILHELM MULLER – You should know that agents of my employer are currently on their way to retrieve me. They've had my precise location since—

TATYANA DANE – Oh, yeah, I wouldn't worry about that. A tracking chip's a very analog way of keeping tabs on people.

WILHELM MULLER – What?

JOEL EASTMAN – Twenty Abstergo gunmen, your rescuers, are in a goatfield right now trying to figure out which one of those poor fellas chewing grass goes by the name of Dr. Wilhelm Muller. Look for the one with the gray beard, right?

WILHELM MULLER – Whatever you're after, I don't have it. They silo every department. No one talks to anyone else, no one knows about anyone else. I—

POUL AGARD – Look at that, cycling through all the stages of grief.

TATYANA DANE – In record timing. Dr. Muller, you see that man leaning against the wall over there? You can guess what he does. He can do it to you and get you to talk. Or you can just talk and we don't have to clean up after him when he's done.

WILHELM MULLER – I'm just a psychologist.

JOEL EASTMAN – Whose?

WILHELM MULLER – I'm a counselor. I perform psychological assessments and offer counseling as...part of the healthcare services available to all Abstergo employees.

JOEL EASTMAN – He's stalling. You're telling us you alone did counseling for tens of thousands of people at Abstergo?

TATYANA DANE – Might be time to let Poul have a go at him.

WILHELM MULLER – Wait! Wait! I...I did have some sensitive clients. Most of my reports went through the usual channels, but occasionally, I provided services to certain employees whose reports were sent through highly restricted channels.
Their...treatment...was, you could say, unorthodox.

JOEL EASTMAN – Unorthodox how?

WILHELM MULLER – Are you familiar with the therapeutic aspects of the Animus? Well, I can hardly take credit for this experiment, but in conjunction with two of my clients, we experimented with using the Animus to address past trauma a person might have undergone. Think of it as personalized automated therapy.

TATYANA DANE – The Animus is more than a meditation app.

WILHELM MULLER – Oh, considerably more.

JOEL EASTMAN – Why were these sections restricted?

WILHELM MULLER – Because of how the Animus was treating traumatic memories.

TATYANA DANE – What was it doing?

(long pause)

WILHELM MULLER – It was overwriting them. Ingenious, really. I must credit my clients as truly brilliant people, for I, myself, would not have thought of such a use for the device and—

JOEL EASTMAN – Who are they? These clients?

TATYANA DANE – And don't claim patient confidentiality. That ship sailed a long time ago.

WILHELM MULLER – You'll never get to them. And even if you did, what you fail to understand is that some of us actually enjoy the work we do. We find purpose in it. Solace! We are not some evil megacorporation out to control the world where everyone is miserable and enslaved to us. There is so much good we are doing out in the world. So much good.

JOEL EASTMAN – Who are they?

WILHELM MULLER – If you shoot me now, you will never get their names.

JOEL EASTMAN – We kidnapped one Abstergo doctor. We can kidnap another.

WILHELM MULLER – They'll never join you, whatever it is you think you're doing. To begin with, they are Abstergo's most prized researchers. Do you really think they wouldn't be hidden behind a hundred layers of fortress? No one is more protected than them.

(long pause)

WILHELM MULLER – Well, if you think you can convince Dr. Ortiz and Dr. Maeda to leave their incredibly remunerative, benefits-ridden positions doing meaningful, world-changing work that is bringing benefits to untold billions of people around the world, then be my guest. There is, of course, the fact that they are better guarded than the Vatican Secret Archives. But I'm sure you'll be just fine.