[He almost at once shakes his head as if banishing the thought that they went through all of that to safely get it inside only for it to end up as a meal. If it was like that, they could have just killed it out in the ocean, and they aren't low enough on resources that they have to resort to unnecessarily killing the local wildlife.]

No way! URSULA wanted it alive, so we must be studying it for something. We wouldn't need to go through the trouble of putting it in a tank like this otherwise.