"Sounds good. We can figure out specifics when we're somewhere more secure." Like which phrases they needed and what vague responses they could use if one of their coded responses didn't quite fit with what they needed to say.

It felt like a purpose having something to work toward that was a specific goal instead of all the vague, larger questions he had and the questionable orders of an unknown organization.

He spent the rest of the afternoon pretending to hunt their quarry with Dick and then told the younger man he would deliver the bad news for the both of them. He gave the news of their failure to their superiors and that night went to work with Dick on the start of their new code.