Rory's face went still again, moral outrage at war with professional training that said he had to listen to and not judge the patient. It was very hard not to judge the patients situation, though.

"Ah-Newsboys? How'd that work out, exactly? Did the government approve of this?"

So there had been a plan to keep him under control, and even if they hadn't been able to implant it, they had still formed the person he was from the ground up. That mean he was still the sort of person who would listen to them, who would have no choice but to listen to them. It was disgusting, what had been done.