[Viktor will concede that point, and he offers a little wince and a shrug, indicating that he knows he's speaking from a place of relative indoor plumbing privilege. Still, it's not all good.]

Industry has a human cost. Pollution. Unsafe working conditions. Environmental degradation, illness. [Things he knows intimately, given the place where he grew up and the afflictions he's suffering from now, even after years on the other side of the river.] All things I was working to eliminate.

[There is, however, a defeated quality to his voice, a tacit admission that he wasn't really getting anywhere, or is maybe disappointed that he's been pulled away from his research (it's both).]