She... yeah, she has no trouble believing that Jack's going through some trauma about all this.

But Tenenbaum's clock is sort of ticking here. Partly because she's expecting at least one girl to arrive from if when Jack performs his rescue; they don't come to her straight away but she likes to always be there when they do. But partly because this meeting is still missing their prodigal son.

"How long has he been gone?" she asks, 99% keeping the worry out of her voice.