"You sure love talking like you've got everything figured out!" Shinji Ikari curled his lip.
"This isn't some vessel. This is my mom, you idiot."
"So Almaloz is the contingency you left behind after you departed?"
"No, he has nothing to do with us." SEELE shook his head.
"Then what exactly is he, and what does he want to do to this world?" Shinji Ikari asked.
"He has no self-awareness," SEELE said. "So he doesn't 'want' to do anything. There are only things he must do."
"So he's something like the Dummy System!?" Shinji Ikari frowned.
SEELE looked at the white giant as though admiring a statue of a god.
Unit-01 had to be a remarkably perfect body.
"More or less."
"The Black Giant has no self. Though he possesses intelligence, he is merely a failsafe for carrying out the Human Instrumentality Project."
"What he must do is keep Instrumentality going, so he has to restart the world."
Misato Katsuragi's conjecture was conclusively proven wrong.
NERV ANIMA had identified Almaloz as the enemy responsible for this disaster.
They believed he was allied with the Angel Vessel and controlled by SEELE's remnants.
"If you're looking for an enemy controlling Almaloz, and for his motives..."
"That search is meaningless, because no such being exists."
"Throughout our journey, none of us has ever seen him. Perhaps he never existed at all."
"To this day, we don't even know whether he vanished, was destroyed, went into hiding, or left."
"God, where are you? We, too, have been searching for the answer to that question."
"The one who orchestrated everything didn't go missing only after this plan failed."
"It was simply after the plan failed that Almaloz arrived here."
"If you fail, you start over from the beginning. Perseverance is the spirit of scientific research."