"Mate, you really are new if you think you'd sound like an idiot asking about a name that half of our number wouldn't recognize the significance behind."

Hickey does, of course. John Doe, that's what you call a corpse. But someone like Ruby, Randvi, the various Russians...they'd probably think that it's just a name, nothing more.

"Word of advice from someone who's been here close to a year? Leave all your preconceived notions behind you. Even as something as basic as morality, as a law that you think everyone should know? Forget it. If you're not meeting this place with a sense of openness, it'll snap you in half."