Togusa's tone finally relents, the sign that he got through to him is what he really needed. "I am going to keep driving this car and talk until we work this out. Not because I don't have any other option, but it's how I want to solve this."

He turns the car, picking a side road they can just go down without bothering people. "But I don't know what Retrospec is going to do. None of us do. But they can find a way to make it worse. Every time we think it's the worst, they do something we couldn't have imagined."

The car stops, so that Togusa can finally look at James again, even if he doesn't look back. "And the real reason I'm here is that I'm scared. That they'd decide to test it out on you first." Small secret of growing up, James, when adults get angry, it's usually because they're actually scared, of something or another.