That's a long story, too, but the war turned out to be a sham. Two sides being manipulated and pit against each other. [ Everything is such a long, complicated story -- he can tell York about the Reds and Blues, sometime, about how they started and and how they've grown, Tucker, Kimball, Doyle, Locus and Felix. There's other things, though, other things that're more important for York to know, and that Wash has maybe been putting off because he still doesn't quite know how to say them. ] We were helping them, preparing to make a final push, and well, now I'm here. Sorry, there's just -- there's a lot. A lot happened in all this time.

[ He's skipping over a lot of details, not answering questions York has, he knows, he knows, but he needs to tell him this. York had asked about the others, and. ]

York, the others are gone. [ Looking up at him, and he says the others but he means everyone, everyone's dead, everyone's dead including you -- but he doesn't know how to tell him that. Until Carolina had shown up out of the blue, Wash had thought he was the only one left, the only one who'd survived and by far the least deserving. And this -- this, he knows, will hurt York the most. ] North was killed by the Meta.