You know I don't believe that, right? That you're not a nice person? [Alex shifted, so that she was looking at him again, the frown evident on her face as her eyes met his.] And that's not to say I don't know what an asshole you can be sometimes, or how inconsiderate or obnoxious you can be. But I also don't think that you're a complete bastard either.

Richard, whatever else you do with your Institute, I think you do try and help prove to people that what they're frightened of isn't real. Do I think you go about it the wrong way sometimes and definitely could benefit from having someone like me with you to help break the news more gently? Yes. But I don't think you do it to just be a complete jerk and take people's blankets away whatever other people think.

I think that you're hoping by giving them reason as a blanket, then they won't need the other ones.

[Of course Alex wasn't going to get into the fact that she still expected that everything was real despite how hard he always tried to pretend it wasn't. Because that wasn't the argument she was making here. Here, she was arguing that he wanted to help people.]

But yes, you'll always have me.