He really is quite set on talking to Tenenbaum. He's decided that they'll talk, after all. There are questions only she can answer. Stuff in his head only she can understand. When he lets himself think about it, she's the closest thing he has to a mother.

But this is a steep-ass price.

Believe it or not, Jack carefully filed away that advice Sinclair gave him before, treated it as gospel as any other items in his quest log. And so he's silent for several moments more. Because he is trying, very hard, not to yell into the radio.

...

"Okay," he says at last, but it comes out a bit strangled.