[The relief when Dirk gets the shades into his hands is physical. They're still blinking away, insisting they have a message. He's no longer terrified what that message is.]

I couldn't ever control him when I was awake. It carries over, except he gets even more aggressive about insisting he's just a projection of me and therefore I don't have any place to even try to stop him. When I was dating Jake, he insisted that he was wingmanning me, when all he ever did was try to manipulate Jake or misrepresent my intentions just enough to warp the scenario.

[It's apologetic; an explanation for why Dirk felt desperate to pull the shades away from Dave. He does not want a projection of a splinter that he can't control to try to manipulate his brother. He does not want the AR to try to fuck with Dave's head.]

So you have more things on the floor and fewer on the walls? The door out is blocked by Captain Snoop. We have to go through the wardrobifier. [The door fades out, leaving them a route that gets them... let's say outside the front door, since evidence suggests, leaving them at the front door to the apartment..]