Less 'couldn't', more 'had no frame of reference for believing it'. Eliot figured Kathy might like the classified line. "Sorry, darlin'. I'm gonna have the guy who didn't just beat his fingers on a bunch of people stitching my face." He held up his hands. "Which ain't me sayin' I don't trust you to be able to do it."

Just to be clear.

"We went through basic together," Shelley said. "I'm one of the few, the proud, the stayed on Spencer's radar after he went AWOL."