even if he’s right, it doesn’t change anything. she can’t look at the world with such a cynical perspective and still do her job effectively. terragenesis gave her a gift and she promised herself that she would do something good with it. she’d make a difference. or at least that had been her ambition when she was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. now that she isn’t anymore, she doesn’t have a primary objective. “I don’t believe that. there’s always good people out there, always. its the ones like you that try to stifle their voices and I’m not letting you do it to me.” he can’t corrupt her because her faith was unshakable. if there was no hope left for humanity than they were lost and she can’t accept that.
“i highly doubt that.” he wasn’t trying to cover up anyone’s voice. no, he was simply laying out the facts of the matter towards her. if that meant saying harsh facts? so be it, he could deal with that when the time came. “people are never truly good. i know that as fact.” or that was just what he thought at least. “believe what you want, but every human is a potential killer.”