"Funny how that happens," he says with a small, cold smile. It sounds awfully similar to what had happened to him and Kara. He had decided against turning his gun on her, but then she had shot him and refused to listen to what he had to say, which ended up with her caught in the building as the bombs were dropped.

The CIA had wanted to get rid of them both. He has Kara and her behaviour to thank for that.

"Not a very good Christmas bonus, is it?" he asks. "Being killed off by the people you work for. But sometimes it can work in our favour. I disappeared."