"Maybe there hasn't been an inmate here yet who needed what I can teach." It's hard to be casual about it, to not bristle and get defensive when it's his greatest fear. When he's been half-waiting for the day the Admiral just gives up on him and sends him home for months now. "Or at least not as much as they needed what someone else could." He makes himself shrug, though he doesn't even try to fake a smile.

"Like I said, I can't say because I have no idea how the Admiral thinks, but I do know that I've learned a lot in the last sixteen months, about this place and the people on it and how it works. And when I get an inmate of my own I'll do everything I possibly can for them."