OPERANT

You better hope she really does forget it -- that was a question worthy of a child pretending to be an operant.

Paranoia has saved the life of many an operant. Yours could be next.

First assignment off the shelf and you're being stalked by a suspected operant killer. Kill yourself to get it over with.

Alerting the public about spies in their midst is bad for you too, operant.

Operant, you cannot give away your gun. It's needed for the assignment.

An operant should blend seamlessly into their environment, leave no trace.

It does not. And in case you had forgotten, Hershel, you are an operant.

You think it's 'cool' to announce yourself and your intentions to anyone who might hear? Hershel, you are an operant.

"I'd be careful with that line of exploration, CASCADE. The Operant Bureau reminds you that History has ended. The future is now."

"Obviously I will be covering up. I am a trained operant, Ramses."

A trained operant, played like a child's instrument by a depraved old man.

This is some Operant PROBABLE-level multi-dimensional chess that he is playing.

She is monitoring the situation around her as any operant would do... luckily, she's less experienced than you.

"I think for the Operant Bureau, about 22%. For M.I.H.O., somewhere in the region of 48%."

"KALEIDOSCOPE is a professional operant!"

"Probabilities of success adjusted accordingly. I would put the Operant Bureau's odds at about 22%. For M.I.H.O., somewhere in the region of 48%."

"You've gone sentimental at exactly the wrong time, operant."

'Their own' tasks, which is your case are the diametric opposite of sweeping, operant.

But I'm an operant... a spy for an international intelligence agency...

Stop this at once, Operant, before it is too late!

Confirming that he does, in fact, know her. This man would be a terrible operant.

Absolutely not. Holster your weapon, operant.

'Big ticket item about to hit the organ block. Opening bids already coming in by payphone -- Party Alley, West Side. Who will we say is calling, operant?'

Too late, operant. I'm smashed and leaking.

Don't blame yourself, operant.

Like Operant KEEPSAKE, who was fed to sacred hawks by the Mircean inquisition in 21 -- consigning her soul to eternal torment.

"Is your forehead warm, operant? I'm afraid you're not making any sense..."

Crushed -- like Operant MARBLE, who was ejected from a Mircean submarine and immediately pulped by the sheer weight of black, icy water above.

"What about an operant called HOLOCENE?"

Recall the case of Operant DUTY, who was tortured so effectively by the Weeping Eye that he began to reveal the secrets of his captors.

"Come on, operant. No need to play stupid games any longer."

"No, operant. I don't."

"'THE SWARM', reversed. Unsurprising for the traitor. Atomisation. A widening gulf between self and world. Operant: you are alone."

"Please, operant. Explain the joke." He nods.

"'THE SWARM', reversed. Atomisation. A widening gulf between self and world. Operant: you are alone."

OPERANT CASCADE, IN RECOGNITION OF YOUR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE, THE PARTY HEREBY DISAVOWS ANY AND ALL KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR EXISTENCE.

As it was with Operant AXIS, captured in La Cupola in 75 and then dragged behind the resurfacing machine at every Luzian ice hockey game until he finally succumbed in 78.

"I don't know anything about some 'Operant CASCADE'. I'm just a tourist."

"There's something I've been meaning to ask, operant. How did you earn your name?"

Because he is an operant. And this is an astral door, a dead drop operated by a predatory foreign financial entity.

They were officially cautioned by an EMTERR operant. As was your double, it seems. With prejudice.

Begin here: The weird man in headphones is an EMTERR operant. That much is clear from this astral door.

So this headphone guy must be an operant...

6) CASCADE: Status changes to REANIMATED. Operant arrives in-theatre -- unbriefed, unassigned, and...

2) CASCADE STATUS: Frozen. DURATION: In perpetuum. Opera issues DIRECTIVE: Dispatch lead operant to Portofiro.

Because PSEUDOPOD didn’t possess your killer mindset, operant.

That's telling them, Operant TITS-UP.

"Then he must've been a spy. With the Operant Bureau." A measured flare of cigarette smoke from his nose. "Like you."

1) Tempo, cryptonym TAXMAN, your dormant asset, contacts the Opera. INTENT: Unknown. INFORMATION: Unknown. REQUEST: Meeting with Operant CASCADE, only CASCADE.

The Operant Bureau's vanguard does not get zeroed out by area clowns.