It's like you're trying to say that new recruits are worth more ... [ Squinting so hard with a fork hanging off his mouth. If not for the chat he had with Mom, Ed would be agreeing on the part about it coming at a great cost, however. It's a cost he paid himself. But being in the CDC has opened his mind a bit. It's much more naive to cling onto your own skepticism here than it is to simply accept what's going on. He's learned that in some other worlds, Equivalent Exchange simply didn't apply. There were people who could raise the dead at little cost at all.

Ed lets the topic change. He knows the person behind the revivals, but he's pondering over whether it's knowledge he wants to share.

and oh yeah ... the blue team mission. ]

Yeah, I heard of it. [ It slipped his mind there for a moment. This definitely isn't the first time they've revived a ton of people at a time then. ] They were just messing with Blue team, with that shitty mission.