If Byerly gives them my name, though, they would be able to recognize me from it. I was was with the Cetagandans for some time before coming over here, after all.

[ Drumming his fingers on the table. He's trying to focus on planning, but it's difficult, he's fresh from speaking with Natasha, from seeing how distraught she was, from having to send her straight back there. Natasha had known that was for the best as well, of course, but god. ]

I don't know what exactly they tried to pull, but I knew how compromised they both were around Sonia. [ Not just Byerly, but Natasha, too -- and frankly, having spoken to them both, Wash thinks Natasha had the worst of it. ] And I'm absolutely certain that the only reason Byerly's captured and not her is because he forced her to let him take the fall.