UrsusArctos: This entire scene turns out to be quite revealing about Ritsuko's feelings about both her mother and Gendo. It also served as massive red herring, since it spawned a long ANF debate (now vanished from the internet) suggesting that Gendo's phrase "I have no regrets concerning my work" was what Gendo said to Ritsuko in his infamous silent line from EoE. Shin-Seiki and evaotaku have long since set the record straight on that one, though.