She's so earnest about this, so dedicated and sure that Simon is worth all of the effort she was putting in. It's a faith that Simon had shattered with Sam the moment he'd made that admission. 'At once trusting and untrusting'. That was what Maxine said about all of those who had survived. You needed other people to keep going, but so many people had gone bad, gone crazy, gone cruel, and he'd had to turn people away from Abel himself, back in the early days.

"It's not even up to just me," Sam said. "Maxine is here too. I need to speak to her about it. She knows more, I think." If she knew how things turned out, maybe she could help. "Right now I can't trust him. I don't know what I can believe from him. I've seen too many people die and knowing that he- he was complicit in killing more... I don't even want to look at him."