Until this moment Elias hadn't been certain that he'd include his warden in what he had planned for Daniel and Jon.

But this settles it in his mind.

"I take it you haven't met Daniel. He's pathologically incapable of taking responsibility for his negative actions. I made him torture me, you see. And it was my fault for dying; he certainly hadn't meant to do it. And as for connecting-- he's nothing like I am. He's simply a victim in so much of this, where as I--" he pauses, picks the right words. They're right here in the open, after all. "I do not want to connect with him."