The first thing she thinks on the subject of Hilmi's whereabouts has less to do with any concern for him than it does concern for Megan - what if they need something from him for the antidote? She has no idea how it's made or what goes into that, for all she knows they will need him, what are they supposed to do if he's fallen in a ditch somewhere? (She'd come within inches of suggesting to Erik that if they needed a sample of him for whoever he found to create something that she was sure that could be arranged, she knows all these tall gentlemen who keep offering to do things for her--)

"I think you must have been beautiful," she says, finally, quietly. She thinks of Ellen.