And you know enough, Elizabeth, [he paused, leaning forward] to know that there are always moments where prevention is possible.

But where people do not act.

And then, at the eleventh hour, a cure is necessary. Something far more complicated, far more dangerous than if anyone had intervened earlier.

[Because, as far as he was concerned, it had been the inaction of a hundred people. A thousand, really. But a hundred were very responsible. A hundred people could have ended things so much faster. Could have done more than pull a man to the world over a hundred times to make him cure what could have been prevented.

Even if he was just as responsible.]