We're on a first-name basis in the future? [ he asks Shaw in outright disbelief, startled. Clearly he needs to reevaluate some assumptions he's made. Team indeed.

There's a small bowl left out on the table that Harold uses for tea bags, and he strains his around a spoon before leaving it in the bowl. He's too polite to make tea only for himself when someone next to him just came out of a river, but he won't press them to drink theirs, either.

And if Sameen wants to find the whiskey in the cabinet under the sink, she can do so herself, he's sure. ]

Self-defense is a different matter. And, unfortunately, I can hardly say we're non-violent. [ He so wishes they could be, but that's entirely unrealistic. ] But here especially it makes little sense to kill anyone, practically speaking. Death is impermanent. It's likely to make an enemy rather than solve a problem.

[ Harold thinks people should do things for ethical motives, but if he needs to lay out the rational reasons, too, he can do that. ]