[ Jon doesn't speak for a moment. He smokes and he stares out into the stars and he breathes in the strange air on this strange ship and he listens to Elias Bouchard practically demand to be blinded. ]

Because [ he says with a breath out ] whatever I do to you is just a reason for you to do something else, use some other scheme, cause some other trouble. It's an excuse for you to be cruel, and petty, and small. To make this place, and your time here, about me or Tim or Martin or- or even Sasha.

[ He shakes his head and looks directly at Elias. ]

You're here to learn. You're here... to get better. And if I am to do my job here, I have to believe that's possible. Because I'm sure there are people from all the other worlds that all the other inmates are from who would feel exactly how I do about people I call friends. People I choose to care about and want to see alive again. People I am actively working to bring back to life.

[ A single jump of his shoulders, like a laugh. ]

I'll warn people. Of course I'm going to warn people. So they aren't blind.

But that is all.