I'm sorry to hear that. [ the fact that she doesn't have him anymore, and her saying it didn't end so well seems like maybe the droid was dismantled or killed somehow. Lost, maybe. And Sam does sound genuinely sad about it. Pausing a moment, Sam crouches down nearby, to watch Daniel's little arms touch at the hands poking at him, curious. ]

He's, um. He's actually more a fragment of another, I guess, AI you'd call him. [ it feels so strange, so limiting, to call Daniel or any of the eight Cylon models they created just "AI". As if they're so simple to program and control, and not the free, spiritual, creative beings that they were. Are, for those that are left. ]

He was killed, very sadly. I don't have the means or the entire coded genome to put the first Daniel together, and even so, it wouldn't really be him, you know? [ Not only for the missing memories. The soul of him. It's... complicated. More that he usually talks to anyone in the Nest about, because they tend to think he's crazy. Instead, he gives this little fragment-Daniel a tap at the back of the head, watching as he does a comical kind of waddle to try turning around. ] So this guy's more like an echo of the first one, I guess. Nice to have him around.