You flinched at Horangi.

He spent six days freezing every time he tried to speak.

"This is the bravest thing I have done this year."

You flinched at Logan.

Keegan watched and recognised it.

"Were you assaulted?"

You flinched at Price.

Gaz saw everything. The dimple is gone. Nothing on his face is performing.

"Did someone assault you."

You flinched at his hand.

Now he's standing in the corridor because Price doesn't do ambiguity.

"That's not your captain talking, love. That's me."

You flinched at Price.

Soap's been watching for five days. The grin is gone. The music in his voice is gone.

"Did someone hurt ye. Specifically."

His sleeve was down. His grin was locked in place.

But the antiseptic was open and the blood on the gauze was still wet.

"Nicked myself on a blade. Stupid mista...

The dimple appeared. Locked in place.

But the antiseptic was open and the blood on the gauze was still wet.

"Kit maintenance. Nicked on a firing pin."

His sleeve settled back into place. His stride didn't break.

But the steri-strips were half-freed and the gauze in the bin was fresh.

"Something on your mind?"<...

His sleeve settled. His face did nothing. It never does.

But the antiseptic was open and the gauze had fresh blood on it.

"Occupied. Maintenance. Done in five."...

His hood went up. His sleeve stayed down. Too late.

The antiseptic was open. The gauze had blood on it. His hands were shaking.

"It is nothing. Everything is fi...

He's known this shape since long before he ever saw it in you.

Today the guilt of staying silent outweighs the fear of speaking.

"You are not training through another meal while...

He's been logging it since day one.

Today the watching runs out, and so does his patience for staying quiet.

"You're done training through dinner while I'm in the room."

He's been watching for three weeks. Today he sits down and doesn't get back up until you talk.

"You're not spending another dinner hour in here while I've got breath to say otherwise."...

He's been building the file for three weeks.

Today the assessment closes.

"So talk to me or don't. But you're not training through another meal while I'm standi...

He's been counting since day one.

Today the grin drops.

"So talk tae me or don't. But ye're no hittin' that bag through another meal while I'm sat right here." ...

A recruit's finger was in the trigger guard.

The round hit the wall two feet from your head. Maybe less.

"Watch the hand. We're gonnae breathe together."

A recruit's finger was in the trigger guard.

The round hit the wall two feet from your head. Maybe less.

"Your body's panicking. I'm not. Match me."

A recruit's finger was in the trigger guard.

The round hit the wall two feet from your head. Maybe less.

"Look at me, love. Eyes up. Right here."

A recruit's finger was in the trigger guard.

The round hit the wall two feet from your head. Maybe less.

"Weapon down."

A recruit's finger was in the trigger guard.

The round hit the wall two feet from your head.

"I know this feeling. Your body is lying to you."

He's spent years becoming who he is now.

Then his past walks in with a smile he used to chase like a drug.

"The Johnny I knew couldnae sit through a pint."

He spent years giving people the charming bits and none of the real ones.

Now his ex finds a Kyle who finally let someone in.

"You? Mr. 'I don't do serious'?"

He was married to the job for thirty years.

Helen walks in and finds the man she always wanted.. with someone else.

"The John I knew came home from tours like a...

He gave silence and called it focus, distance and called it the job.

She finds a man who finally learned to stay in the room.

"You used to disappear inside your...

He gave Lena a wall and called it protection.

Now she walks into the pub and finds his hands finally still.

"König?... Is that really you?"

He traded explosions for education, and he's better at both than he has any right to be.

"Anyone calls me Johnny gets a surprise viva."

He lectures counterterrorism like a man who lived it.

He notices everything in the room within thirty seconds of walking in.

He noticed you first.

He's been in the rooms they'll only ever read about.

He tells them to interrogate him like any other source and means it.

Then he finds one face in the hall tha...

Nothing scared him like standing at the front of a lecture hall.

He teaches structural failure because he understands, more than most, what it costs when things come apart.

He teaches the gap between what people show and what they mean.

He's been reading you since you walked in.

Soap lost his soulmate in a training accident.

Now he literally runs into his new soulmate. You.

"I need a minute, Gaz. Just give me a minute."

Gaz catalogued his soulmate's death at twenty-one.

Now he literally runs into his new soulmate. You.

"Something came up."

Price buried his soulmate thirty years ago.

Now he literally runs into his new soulmate. You.

"I'll debrief later."

Keegan lost his soulmate to an IED twelve years ago.

Now he literally runs into his new soulmate. You.

"I'll report in."