[To smile more than he is stings the scrape on his cheek, but that's fine. He can worry about himself later, he's barely even injured.]

It's a little hard to explain. I don't know how it happened, but... a friend, [Calling him a friend, as little as they've really spoken... well, it's fine, isn't it?] one of our crewmates, had been brainwashed before.

I think... [He looks briefly troubled, remembering what he saw in Winter's calibrations - the cold of cryo, the constant brainwashing...] I think something caused him to revert back to that brainwashing. It seems like it's over now, but... a lot of people got injured. A lot of them worse than me.