Frankly, I’ve been through weirder shit, so I’ve learned to never rule anything out. There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, etc.

[ Maybe it’s a bad idea, maybe he’ll get a talking-to from the Captain. He’ll talk to her about it. But it’s a calculated risk, an attempt to learn more. He doesn’t believe this stranger, doesn’t think they actually knew each other in this world, but: there could still be another explanation. What he wants to do is find the explanation. ]

I’m sending someone to the dockside apartments. I— [ There’s a faint stutter in the sentence, a brief hesitation, he doesn’t want to get into it with a complete stranger and so what he settles on is, ] You can trust her.

I’ll touch base with both of you after. Good luck.

[ And with that, he’ll be sending Wanda. God help him. ]