Oenone sits at the monitoring station, feeling not very good about herself at all. Is she any better than NERV's officers, who willingly subject Kensuke to this kind of treatment? But what if she weren't there, and the tester was someone who was cruel to her? Would her brother have approved of this? Her parents?

"I'm showing g-good synchronizing, Felicita. How d-do you feel?" She says into the comm, her stutter betraying her feelings of trepidation about this project.