[ The smartass comment doesn't do anything to help Jack's mood. His mouth thins out into a line and his expression is completely unimpressed. The thing is, he's pretty sure that if Gabriel had actually come across anything of note in his investigation, he would have shared it with him. There would be no reason to hide that kind of intel in this situation, which means that he's probably come up just as empty as everyone else.

For someone like Reyes, that's not an easy pill to swallow.

At the question, Jack nods slowly, but he also knows that task isn't as simple as they'd expected it to be when they first got here. ]

If we want to do it, we need to find someone to actually perform the surgery and to replace it with a new one. It's not exactly what we wanted, but at least that way we know it's not from some unknown source.

[ Even the straight out of the box implants likely had some software pre-installed to monitor them, but in that case they could hope it would be more run-of-the-mill data collection. Still not great, but better than the giant question mark they're dealing with now. ]