Collette listens to a story similar in parts to one she's lived through at the tail end of a fight borne by Jake and the rest for years. "Gotta admit, we don't always do so well with aliens. We're pretty sure we know all there is, so it takes us a little." Or a lot of time in order to break past the preconceptions.

She doesn't have much of a problem with this; hers comes in being too ready and willing to trust and believe.

"We'll see if someone can synthesize it. Even if we're not the scientists," she adds, "Soldiers can soldier right into the right answers some of the time."

She doesn't choose to point out he's been drafted as a soldier again. She's more curious at the past tense. "Is it that easy to leave it behind? Being a soldier."