Then there may be a silver lining to this after all. Whatever these people have done to get him in the first place, may be what we need to get him home again.

[It's a pragmatic point of view, but he didn't want Eiji to carry all that weight alone.]

We need to make a plan for when we have an opportunity. I can try to tail them at a distance, but I can't get too close, or this could happen again. [He tapped the newspaper with his finger.]