_{[Coop lowers his eyes for a moment in silent admission to everything Albert is saying. It's also a small gesture of defeat, although not one he's giving consciously or willingly.]}

You are all in danger. The young woman taken hostage - Annie, Annie Blackburn - I kill her first. You don't suspect me because there's no reason to and all evidence is circumstancial at best.

_{[And he looks up again and he's so infinitely sad and completely accepting of this, that this is what he becomes, have already became.]}

I need you to remember this in order to prevent it. I told Harry a few things - not all of it. I ... I hate having to ask this of you. But I don't know what else I can do.

_{[Other than guard dead girls and keep an eye on the beings that talk so strangled and stilted and only in riddles he understands the meanings of but yet find to not make any sense at all.]}