You think I can play devil’s advocate? Thomas would have played that game with you from dusk until dawn, and everything you hold sacred, he’d leave in tatters. Not from malice or hate, but from love. From a desire to see the yoke of shame lifted from your shoulders.
The empire survives in part because we believe its survival to be inevitable. But it isn’t. And they know that. That’s why they’re so terrified of you and I.
In which a one-off character that dies in the pilot succinctly describes everything that James Flint is fighting against for this whole series – even though we won’t understand that for a Very Long Time.
A man and a woman rescued me, cared for me, delivered me home. Now one of them is dead. The other is about to be. And the only man, it seems to me, to have committed a crime in all this…still works for you. Is that not the truth?