Tenenbaum claims a cigarette without hesitation. And she actually uses her own lighter this time, unless Sinclair is set to offer his.

"It was a year." In fact they sent him up not long before Fontaine died -- or 'died', as it turned out. "I had him travel."

There's something fuller in her voice when she says that, behind the chilly efficiency. She likes to think it was a good year for him, on the surface. She likes to hope it was.