"But he--"

He takes a second, shaking his head in an attempt to clear it, and then tries,

"I can't even pretend that I understand any of this, what's behind-- why he's -- but I'd met him before. I do remember what his function is, as he put it."

He can't quite articulate what he's really trying to say, he knows.

"I wouldn't have thought that you'd want to -- to reverse those actions-- except I don't understand why Rosse--"