I couldn't just sit idly by and watch as those people were left there; they could have been killed, or worse--

[ And one of them was, she thinks, trying to recall the details of what had happened to the one member of the shuttle party, the one who'd been shut behind some mysterious door.

He knows. She worries at her lip, guard brought down momentarily. ]

... He tricked me. [ She said quietly. ] I thought he--that thing--might know something about... about this place, or...

[ Why had she followed Smiley into the corridors? It seems so silly now. Her stomach knots up and she finds she can't quite meet his gaze. ]

It was reckless, I know that. I made a mistake, but... well, that's living, isn't it? You do stupid things and you... you hurt people that you care about, and then you learn from it and you grow.

[ She looks to him, subdued. Sad. ]

I'm trying, Booker. I really am.