I wish. . . I wish we had been able to be honest from the start, about what happened. I wasn't trying to be cruel, when I said I wanted to focus on the nova.

[He knows he said that, and he knows Emet-Selch was angry about that. . . ]

I only meant. . . I don't care about things like that! Yoshizawa-san's murderer seemed cruel, but isn't it possible she was splintering? Isn't it possible we read the evidence wrong, and it wasn't as painful as it seemed?

I don't know any of those things for sure, one way or another. All I know is that I don't want to learn that anyone is a murderer, or vote for them to die.

But I also don't want anyone to think that their lives aren't important to us. So I'm sorry.