If Steve knew what she was thinking — he feels like he can just barely guess, but he really isn’t sure — he’d tell her that she has it half right. It is an inside job. But he doesn’t think it’s a Special. If the results come back the way he thinks, with scrubbed video footage, and the assassination timestamped at 01:00, Steve suspects the inside job is here, in Armed Forces, from someone of higher rank than him. And there’s a whole lot of complication tied into a suspicion like that.
Which is why, when the pause hits, and Buffy suddenly just starts talking, he realizes that she must have noticed something even if not everything. He goes along with it.
“Thank you Buffy. I’ll be sure to notify you when we get the security tapes back. Should be later today.”
And that sets them up to have another conversation inside the sector, without suspicion, if it comes to that. But Steve imagines that once he gets a little further, he can call a meeting someplace secure, like Specials HQ, and brief Buffy (and Allison too, soon) on what he thinks is going on. If they’re going to be on his team, he won’t hide anything about how dangerous of a position all of them might suddenly be in.
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Which is why, when the pause hits, and Buffy suddenly just starts talking, he realizes that she must have noticed something even if not everything. He goes along with it.
“Thank you Buffy. I’ll be sure to notify you when we get the security tapes back. Should be later today.”
And that sets them up to have another conversation inside the sector, without suspicion, if it comes to that. But Steve imagines that once he gets a little further, he can call a meeting someplace secure, like Specials HQ, and brief Buffy (and Allison too, soon) on what he thinks is going on. If they’re going to be on his team, he won’t hide anything about how dangerous of a position all of them might suddenly be in.