[It's tactics, plain and simple. He was collateral. He was always going to be collateral. You don't work for as long as you do under Project Freelancer and expect to come out the other end alive. If you expect to come out the other end at all.]

Dumb luck and a group of the worst soldiers I've ever encountered - who were just stupid enough to be trusted.

[And just stupid enough to trust him, after all he'd done.]

They faked my death for me instead of leaving me to the UNSC. [And they were in no way obligated. In fact, he wouldn't have blamed them for doing exactly the opposite.]

[But they didn't.]