I'd been the first morph-capable human-controller. The first. And maybe that'd been partially an accident and partially a matter of the yeerks using me as a human shield against Jake, and yet... What if they'd known something I hadn't? What if people could tell, just by looking at me, how useful I was? How easy it'd be to take this body from me and turn it into a weapon? After all, that was what they'd done.
— Tom's narration, The Thing from Another World
