"Well, I am responsible for keeping humanity safe from a half-open rift in time and space on a day-to-day basis, and seem to manage," Jack says sharply. "Just a thought."

Then he sighs. "Even if there was nothing we could have done, nothing... she would have died painlessly. And two other people would be alive right now."

It's a cruel thing to say, he knows. But he has to make him see.