Wash looks at him a little carefully at Ratchet's clear refusal to elaborate, but that's fine. He won't press. That they've done something is information enough.

"I appreciate it -- I'll keep that in mind," he answers, and he does mean it genuinely, his tone warm -- though he's still going to be wary of actually asking anyway, should the time come. Sorry, Ratchet, nothing personal, he's just the careful sort. "Maybe they didn't mean to bring us here, but they've still taken us in for some reason or another -- and us showing up could easily be the side effect of something else."

This is a big military base with it's own R&D department and that's the kind of thing that immediately sets off fifty thousand red flags as far as Wash is concerned.