There is a time and a place for considering the variety of ways that things could have gone down, but Ben can tell this isn't one of them. Patch isn't looking at him, and she sounds so distraught. And given what she's thinking, he doesn't blame her for that. So he gives answers that are more certain-sounding than is perhaps statistically entirely true. But he believes what he's saying.
"Five wasn't coming." That anger is now both of their business, and Ben lets it show, "He was off somewhere getting drunk. He didn't even know Klaus was missing. Neither did Luther or Diego. They thought Five was the missing one. And- and you didn't hear the way Hazel and Cha-Cha were talking, okay. Klaus was pissing them off. They had a deadline they were trying to meet, they were already over schedule or whatever. Another hour, maybe less, they would've just shot him in the head and gone back to the drawing board."
Ben reaches out and holds Patch's upper arm - hard enough to be bracing but not painful. She might not be looking at him, but his tone of voice is firm and more passionate than it has been this whole time. He has to be able to get through to her. Somehow.
"And backup wouldn't have been better. Probably if a bunch of cop cars had shown up, if he'd made it that long, they would've killed Klaus then and run. Easier than trying to get away with him alive."
Ben's voice is a little throaty with emotion now, but he pushes on through.
"I died for nothing. Okay? So I know... how you must be feeling. But it wasn't like that. You saved someone, from torture, and captivity. It shouldn't have happened. You shouldn't have had that happen to you. But that's so not nothing."
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There is a time and a place for considering the variety of ways that things could have gone down, but Ben can tell this isn't one of them. Patch isn't looking at him, and she sounds so distraught. And given what she's thinking, he doesn't blame her for that. So he gives answers that are more certain-sounding than is perhaps statistically entirely true. But he believes what he's saying.
"Five wasn't coming." That anger is now both of their business, and Ben lets it show, "He was off somewhere getting drunk. He didn't even know Klaus was missing. Neither did Luther or Diego. They thought Five was the missing one. And- and you didn't hear the way Hazel and Cha-Cha were talking, okay. Klaus was pissing them off. They had a deadline they were trying to meet, they were already over schedule or whatever. Another hour, maybe less, they would've just shot him in the head and gone back to the drawing board."
Ben reaches out and holds Patch's upper arm - hard enough to be bracing but not painful. She might not be looking at him, but his tone of voice is firm and more passionate than it has been this whole time. He has to be able to get through to her. Somehow.
"And backup wouldn't have been better. Probably if a bunch of cop cars had shown up, if he'd made it that long, they would've killed Klaus then and run. Easier than trying to get away with him alive."
Ben's voice is a little throaty with emotion now, but he pushes on through.
"I died for nothing. Okay? So I know... how you must be feeling. But it wasn't like that. You saved someone, from torture, and captivity. It shouldn't have happened. You shouldn't have had that happen to you. But that's so not nothing."