[ D'Artagnan looks up, sharply. He doesn't disagree. There's nothing in that sentence for him to disagree with, and there's something in his eyes that burns at the thought of it.

Steve - the other Steve - had been the one to talk him down, the last time he'd been about to say something stupid about their mission. Before they even got to Macha. He keeps that in mind, while he answers this Steve.

There's a thought in his mind that he owes this to both versions of the man. ]

Our mission is destroying the whole planet. Never mind entire villages.

[ He says it like this because at first, he hadn't known. They had tricked him to get him to come here, and then he'd been stuck in a situation he couldn't leave. Not without sentencing his own planet to die. ]

That's what we do. What the CDC do, and these are our orders. None of us can afford the price we pay for refusing.

None of us. You have to remember that.