Daniel was grateful for McKay's support, but he wasn't about to justify himself. This meeting was only an effort to go through the motions anyway; the decision had been made. He was pretty sure that with the announcement of releasing the prisoners that McKay and Raelle had likely figured out what the homing beacon he asked for was for. It would provide a quick and easy way to track their target – and DHARMA's source. One that didn't have to risk any more of his people.
What annoyed him was that no one seemed to get it. It didn't matter if they kept the prisoners or let them go; they didn't know anything that DHARMA didn't know. The prisoners weren't a danger to them; DHARMA would come back and try to take the bunker eventually if they released the prisoners or not – and the prisoners themselves were trapped as much as the castaways were. Yes, they had been compliant, but complaining was one thing; Daniel doubted anyone here had the courage or guts to carry out a sentence on them.
(And I want DHARMA to think we are that weak and lenient and forgiving.)
Unfortunately, he couldn't say any of that to the room at large. Along with DHARMA thinking that he was that much of a bleeding heart – (and once upon a time, I was so it has credibility) – the prisoners had to think so; and to be certain that it didn't get back to DHARMA that went double for most of the castaways.
(When did I start playing cloak and dagger?)
"I'm not going to sit for a kangaroo court. We have the people in charge, those who gave the orders, even if they didn't pull the triggers. We don't need to keep the rest of them. They can't give us any information, and they can't endanger us by giving the enemy information.
"But, in deference to the objections, that I've noted, we'll store them in the buffer. How long can they be held there, Rodney?"
Later, Daniel would take Rodney aside and inform him that there was to be a little mishap with the storing in the buffer: he wanted half of those prisoners free, more than half of them if at all possible.
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[Daniel] Plots within Plots
Date: 2006-10-19 03:04 am (UTC)What annoyed him was that no one seemed to get it. It didn't matter if they kept the prisoners or let them go; they didn't know anything that DHARMA didn't know. The prisoners weren't a danger to them; DHARMA would come back and try to take the bunker eventually if they released the prisoners or not – and the prisoners themselves were trapped as much as the castaways were. Yes, they had been compliant, but complaining was one thing; Daniel doubted anyone here had the courage or guts to carry out a sentence on them.
(And I want DHARMA to think we are that weak and lenient and forgiving.)
Unfortunately, he couldn't say any of that to the room at large. Along with DHARMA thinking that he was that much of a bleeding heart – (and once upon a time, I was so it has credibility) – the prisoners had to think so; and to be certain that it didn't get back to DHARMA that went double for most of the castaways.
(When did I start playing cloak and dagger?)
"I'm not going to sit for a kangaroo court. We have the people in charge, those who gave the orders, even if they didn't pull the triggers. We don't need to keep the rest of them. They can't give us any information, and they can't endanger us by giving the enemy information.
"But, in deference to the objections, that I've noted, we'll store them in the buffer. How long can they be held there, Rodney?"
Later, Daniel would take Rodney aside and inform him that there was to be a little mishap with the storing in the buffer: he wanted half of those prisoners free, more than half of them if at all possible.