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“Maybe I just don’t understand,” or maybe he understands Morrison perfectly. “I’m not a psychologist after all.” There’s some sort of edge to the doctors words. “But no one can work properly if you’ve got them under your thumb all of the time.”
He leans against the desk behind him, hands curled around the edges of it, and resists the urge to rub at his temples. “No,” he concedes, looking off to the side. “No, you’re right. But there are rules and protocols in place for a reason, and I need to be able to trust my team to follow orders even when it doesn’t necessarily suit them, and I need to be--at least informed if they’re going to run off regardless, because otherwise I’m left without a plan if my superiors call in to ask what the Hell is going on. That affects all of us. The whole organisation.
And it’s not--” Jack cuts himself off, furrows his brow at the doctor, like he’s trying to decide on whether or not to trust him. “It’s not just Commander Reyes, Doctor. Reyes is--honestly, he’s the least of our problems. It feels like we’re being--it’s--information keeps getting to the other side, no-one can tell me how, and I’ve had three agents go missing in the past month, and one before that.
Tell me, Dr. Nishi, I’m not the only who feels like we’re being watched? Like we’re just--holding our breath before something happens?”