"Yeah. I've never really been big on that kind of 'ends justify the means' thinking. I don't think it matters how noble your goals are, if you've gotta step on people to get there."

Which is a line of thought that's made his job... interesting, at times. The world of a US intelligence agent does not exist in clear cut good or bad choices often, and there have been many nights where he's been kept up for hours by decisions he's made that could've been better, smarter, kinder.

Speaking of which.

"If you catch it early enough, before the parasite fully develops. Luis, the man I mentioned earlier, found a way to extract it without killing the host. But after it's in there..." he sighs, shaking his head. "There's no coming back. Not that knowing that made it easier to fight off the people who'd been taken over by it."