9AM Project Cat People Hits an Ethical Snag

Lab worker #1: Murder only applies to humans. It's a term specific to us.
Lab worker #2: You can't 'murder' a dream?
Lab worker #1: You can't murder baby cows.
Lab worker #2: What about cats?
Lab worker #1: No. Cats can't be murdered... Unless they?re half-cat, half-person.
Lab worker #2: Then it's half murder.
Lab worker #1: Even if it's premeditated, it's knocked back to manslaughter. That?s probably why the cat people think we're biased against them, but really it's just that the legal system wasn?t set up with them in mind. [Silence.] I've thought about this a lot.

Durham, North Carolina