Eames throws his hands up, exasperated and disbelieving. He feels like they've had one version of this conversation or another a million times over.

"What is so wrong with you that this is what you deserve?" Because he doesn't understand how anyone could believe they deserve this shit, "because the woman I know is smart and quick and brimming with untapped potential and so unflinchingly kind it makes me want to question your intelligence sometimes. Not some animal that needs to be kept in line."