Apparently it's feeling things, so like. I don't know, maybe.

[He hesitates at the curiosity Connor shows. He gets the feeling he's looking for some solution besides death for the SQUIP, and Rich doesn't know if what he has will work that way.]

Well... it's that conjuring project I talked about. It's called Mountain Dew Red. It was this old soft drink, and as crazy as that sounds, it was the one thing that could shut the SQUIP in my head off. It didn't... kill it, exactly, but it did glitch it out. I don't usually hear it anymore.

So I don't know if it's going to kill him here or... maybe just get rid of all the ways it could get into people's heads and control them.