[...and for the second time today... this isn't her Shinji. Quite her Shinji. Probably a few days or weeks behind... explains why the brat's so talkative, she supposes. She drops her hands anyway; there's no need to examine it any further.]

Where I'm from, you'd already set off Fourth Impact. You were in Unit 13, piloting for your father, saying you were going to save the world, exactly as we were afraid you would. That's why we detonated the collar.

Didn't kill you then either for some reason; we averted the Impact and you weren't wearing it when I dragged you out of your plug.