He looks down, picking up crumbs from his shirt, rolling them in his fingers and flicking them on to the carpet.

'...I know, Bols. I know.'

Everything that happened to Mac was his own fault. But there's always going to be the odd doubt, when he's in a reflective mood - if he'd done it a bit differently, or said something at a different time, or something - then maybe they could have had Jarvis bang to rights and it wouldn't have come down to Mac killing him and then himself.

'I wouldn' have let him take you down.'

He looks up at her and maybe she can see how much he means it. But then he looks away again.

'I didn' wan' him t'die, tha's all. Bastard.'