Phil found himself frowning a bit. It didn't exactly bode well that she'd been conditioned. But then, so had Romanov and he trusted her implicitly. Perhaps Nikita was the same. "Just start talking. The rest will work itself out."

He leaned back, casually, and waited. While he wanted to know and he had more or less forced the situation, he wasn't going to hover. Now that he had her talking, he was happy to let her do it at her own speed. He wasn't going to judge, not until he had the facts as she saw them.