"I will." She hesitates a moment, glancing to the bathroom door. "If it comes to it, we can give him a sedative before he reports in. Something mild. Just...enough to take the edge off."

It's a dirty trick, but sometimes that's all they have. They need to get Carver through this. Pope, too, but Pope's older and more experienced; he knows how to endure in ways none of them do just yet.