The Akira from the base killed you. Acting like one who hasn't been to the base, who only might hurt you, is automatically exactly the same as the one who actually did is a good way to make sure everyone here is fighting all the time - just like we were in the mansion. And I already told you how many of us escaped.

So yeah, watch your back, go through a proxy, whatever you need to do. But maybe don't treat potential futures like they've already happened.

[That was the point he'd been trying to make. He doesn't expect she'll want to stick around to talk about that much longer, and Eddie Kim just seems like more negativity (to be saved for another time)....

So he waits til Vita's gone on her way, whatever parting pleasantries. And then focuses. He doesn't know the whole story - but he can learn. Maybe. He'll learn something, at any rate. Time to try and look at her past.]