He couldn't really afford that being confirmed, considering he was offering to kill Atherton--and he didn't want to think about actually having to kill Atherton, there was probably another way around it, and Nate was excellent at figuring those sorts of things out...
...what would Nate do in this situation?
...probably drink the bar dry and get Moreau pissed off at him. And then Eliot would have to come and bail him out.
"You don't think I could have gone soft?" That might be an advantage here if Carter refused to believe otherwise, but Eliot's also mildly insulted.
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He couldn't really afford that being confirmed, considering he was offering to kill Atherton--and he didn't want to think about actually having to kill Atherton, there was probably another way around it, and Nate was excellent at figuring those sorts of things out...
...what would Nate do in this situation?
...probably drink the bar dry and get Moreau pissed off at him. And then Eliot would have to come and bail him out.
"You don't think I could have gone soft?" That might be an advantage here if Carter refused to believe otherwise, but Eliot's also mildly insulted.