[ Yeah, well, a lot of things should be impossible, gramps. And yet? Here we are. So may as well as get this over with, because if there's anything Desmond is good at, it's detaching. He knows those gulls calling in the distance aren't actually there, after all. ]

In-- what? I think it's about eight-hundred or so years after you learn the truth, the Templars are going to build a machine. That machine is going to let people look into the past to help them get what they want. [ And destroy the minds of pretty much anyone who uses it, but who's counting, right? ] So I know you, because I've watched you. Through that machine. You're Altaïr.

[ Been you sounds even creepier, so, uh... ]

And before you ask, no, I'm not one of them, never was.