Or shoving them right back into the Chair any time they gave so much of a hint of remembering. Of showing personality or opinion. The gaslighting was one way to keep them in line, sure, but the American branch of HYDRA didn't bother most of the time. Rather reboot the machine than try to tinker with the programming.

"One already did. I think," they say. "Someone's memory of seeing people being shot. I remembered shooting like that."