[He's not sure the Authority wants them to hold off on talking about their plans. Ford suspects the Authority wants them to talk about lots and lots of important things and gleefully call "bullshit" by inflicting bugs on them.
But Ford wants to talk about this.]
Once I finish the ship, and we get the kids out of Gravity Falls...what're we going to do then?
You've got an inmate, Stan. And I....I've got Bill. I want to be with the kids, but it doesn't feel right to just leave him here while he's still an inmate.
[they've been through a lot together. Ford doesn't see Bill as an unstoppable force anymore, someone who the Barge is barely containing; to him, Bill is a person, a person very afraid of not existing anymore, whose continued existence is in other people's hands.]
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[He's not sure the Authority wants them to hold off on talking about their plans. Ford suspects the Authority wants them to talk about lots and lots of important things and gleefully call "bullshit" by inflicting bugs on them.
But Ford wants to talk about this.]
Once I finish the ship, and we get the kids out of Gravity Falls...what're we going to do then?
You've got an inmate, Stan. And I....I've got Bill. I want to be with the kids, but it doesn't feel right to just leave him here while he's still an inmate.
[they've been through a lot together. Ford doesn't see Bill as an unstoppable force anymore, someone who the Barge is barely containing; to him, Bill is a person, a person very afraid of not existing anymore, whose continued existence is in other people's hands.]