kiwimidnight:

James Flint in every episode:
XXIX.  I have well over 200 men unaccounted for.
Those who remain, it will be very hard to explain to them why,
with all I have to attend to, I choose to stand here hanging onto the fate of just one of them.
I know that you and he had been working closely together of late, become friends even.
I don’t know what I’m trying to say. Perhaps just that… he is my friend, too.