Thomas, the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
The Director is a senior administrator who teaches the horror of family while concealing that he once lost a pregnant companion on the reservation.
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Spoiler-freeThe Director is a senior administrator who teaches the horror of family while concealing that he once lost a pregnant companion on the reservation. He threatens Bernard with exile for unorthodox behavior. Bernard defeats him by bringing Linda and John into the room, making his biological fatherhood public. Humiliated by a fact his society treats as obscene, he resigns and disappears from the story.
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