[Downgrade is right. Wash nods in resigned agreement.]

Yeah. Yeah, it's...I'm going to explain to him so that he doesn't think you're going to kill him or something, because that seems like the kind of conclusion he'd come to if he's panicked.

[Also because the Meta did try to kill him. But this isn't the Meta. This is his friend. And he's not going to let that happen. If it never happens, he never has to explain it to anyone, does he?]

[(How far down this road of denial are you willing to go, Agent?)]

Sorry. This...I guess my reports have gotten shoddy over the years.