"I think he was pretty close to his lowest point when he came here." York paused. "I hope so anyway, because if this was the upswing, I don't know what his lowest point looked like. He's a lot better than he was, but some stuff is off-limits. I don't know; I made a lot of mistakes. Pushing when I shouldn't have, keeping my mouth shut when I should have explained things." He looked away from Carolina. "I don't know if not pushing him was the right thing."

Of course, the odds were that he knew who was behind that blast. If it wasn't Carolina or the Director himself, that left one likely party. "Of course he might have had other reasons."