You be nice to someone and they'll take you for everything you've got.

Carter freezes because isn't that what just happened to him? Trusting someone and having it thrown back in your face in the worst possible way? No. No, he can't think like that, can't allow himself to think like that. That's not who he is.

"It does happen. I've seen it happen. Plenty of times, actually, before I was brought here," he retorts just as stubbornly.

A beat.

"Good."