[This is not what he was expecting and it's a bit of a relief. He listens to her explanation, idly messing with his sleeve a little as she talks, and he's really just not surprised by her description of the cops on her world. He'd never really intended to join law enforcement himself and had quit twice--and knows not that he shouldn't have ever gone back--because he's very aware of the flaws.]

I understand the sentiment.

[He gets why she wants to support Gaby, and wants to believe that she's fighting for the people that aren't being represented by the government, which honestly seems like pretty much everyone. And Lance isn't convinced that that's not the truth; he has no reason to really suspect Gaby personally, and aside from how she'd handled talking to him and the others on his post, she hasn't done anything particularly suspicious.

But there's a disconnect there between Gaby--and other individual Morningstar agents--and the leadership. Especially if that leadership is only one individual with a somewhat sordid history, whose identity is unknown to almost everyone in Morningstar.]

I don't have any problem with Morningstar's stated intention, and I think it's likely that most of the people involved with it--if not all--are doing their best for a good cause. But as far as I understand Gaby's the only one who even knows El is the leader, and that's both a pretty enormous breach of ethics and a worrying sign about what's considered acceptable. I'm just as concerned that Gaby and the other agents might be caught up in something harmful as I am about something like that happening to the Displaced.

[He gets being worried about the people who are considered expendable by those in charge, but there's also a risk of that happening in an organization with a leader that may decide the ends justify the means.]