[Desmond's quiet a bit.] You can tell them the whole story, if it helps you talk out what happened better. It's not like you have to spare me on this one, what happened happened.

[He isn't sure how or why he'd try to defend himself.] It wasn't ... I don't know. I don't want you to think that I'm blaming Juno and I'm absolving myself, because I'm not. [There's a lot of emotion in his voice, he's trying to swallow past it.] She showed me that you were a Templar and a danger to the world so I'd stop struggling, and I was really fucking fighting, but I couldn't fight her hard enough. She could've made me kill all three of you. It doesn't excuse that I gave up and let it happen. I think she wanted me to be hopeless and broken, and it worked. I don't think ...

[He takes a moment's breath.] Even if you told me the truth about the Templars, if you trusted me, I don't think I could have stopped her. I wanted to believe that it would've changed things, we'd be too powerful a team and fight her off, but it's just not the truth. You were in her way and I wasn't strong enough. And I'm sorry, because it means the only way for you to have survived this shit was to never have met me, and that's something I can't fix.