Alright, that's fair. That's an extraneous detail, Sinclair supposes he doesn't have to know it.
But really though, this isn't his fault. It's not like he waited until Jack was distracted because he knew that somewhere around here was a room coated floor to ceiling in the private details of Jack's past. There was no way he could have seen that coming.
And then there this sense of pity that squeezes his organs when he looks at Jack's face. The weight of what all this means for and about Jack just hits him, now that he's cleared a small path through what it means for the two of them as partners.
This is someone who never used to have any sort of free will. He was conditioned to obey, he wasn't meant to be a person.
But he is, and Doctor Tenenbaum must have seen it first. Sinclair suspects she helped Jack break out of it. It makes sense, then, why she's so bitter towards him. To give him his free will and then for him to make decisions that work directly against her.
Sinclair takes another second to choose his words, but in the end there's only one way to say what he wants Jack to know.
"Son, you can trust me."
And to anyone else it would sound like utter horse shit. Augustus Sinclair is one of the last men in Rapture anyone would call trustworthy, but he worked hard for that reputation. And this isn't about business. This isn't about earning Jack's favor to gain more information to inevitably use against him, this isn't about collecting weaknesses to sell him out later.
This is about trying to find any peace of mind he can extend to Jack at all. There's a lot they're going to have to work out if Jack decides to continue on with Sinclair, but they're not going anywhere until Jack calms down. And that won't even begin to happen until he stops feeling like he's about to be attacked, like Sinclair's going to peel him down to his scared and vulnerable core.
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But really though, this isn't his fault. It's not like he waited until Jack was distracted because he knew that somewhere around here was a room coated floor to ceiling in the private details of Jack's past. There was no way he could have seen that coming.
And then there this sense of pity that squeezes his organs when he looks at Jack's face. The weight of what all this means for and about Jack just hits him, now that he's cleared a small path through what it means for the two of them as partners.
This is someone who never used to have any sort of free will. He was conditioned to obey, he wasn't meant to be a person.
But he is, and Doctor Tenenbaum must have seen it first. Sinclair suspects she helped Jack break out of it. It makes sense, then, why she's so bitter towards him. To give him his free will and then for him to make decisions that work directly against her.
Sinclair takes another second to choose his words, but in the end there's only one way to say what he wants Jack to know.
"Son, you can trust me."
And to anyone else it would sound like utter horse shit. Augustus Sinclair is one of the last men in Rapture anyone would call trustworthy, but he worked hard for that reputation. And this isn't about business. This isn't about earning Jack's favor to gain more information to inevitably use against him, this isn't about collecting weaknesses to sell him out later.
This is about trying to find any peace of mind he can extend to Jack at all. There's a lot they're going to have to work out if Jack decides to continue on with Sinclair, but they're not going anywhere until Jack calms down. And that won't even begin to happen until he stops feeling like he's about to be attacked, like Sinclair's going to peel him down to his scared and vulnerable core.