I'll get...I don't know, a hat or something. Or a mask, but those have eye holes. Do you think anybody here would have a burka?

[Yes, he's trying to joke about it. And yes, it's pretty lame. He's feeling a bit too shitty after that recoil to get much of a smile into the words, he'll always try, for her.

Which means trying to keep her safe here, too.]

You know, I think I'm being too calm about waking up in a mysterious compound. I think we all are. How does something like this happen?

[How do the dead just wake up one night, though. Eventually you have to accept that it's insane but sometimes they just do.]