Our motive this week is to bring the dead back to life, even our dead. Every week, we've wondered whether the motives can really be trusted. Alice has never offered proof. But this week, she could hardly make this offer if she didn't have the ability to follow through. If someone succeeded and she didn't bring them back, her bluff would be called.

No man left behind, she said. No man left behind, and when this is done, we'll be well. The playing God referred to - we assumed creating life, but I wonder if it isn't also averting death.