Hope. [A laugh.] No. Not hope. You've got it wrong. He gives me something to look at so I don't have to look at myself.

[The same way the Knights of Cybertron and all their aura of ancient virtue do.]

[An almost bitter laugh.] So this is merely an elaborate and expensive way so you can dodge responsibility for what you've done, and give you what you think you deserve instead.

Maybe it makes me a coward.