Gil was pleased by that, but not happy. He looked down into his coffee cup.

"Jessica had trouble coping after Martin's arrest. Her whole world falling in, society piranhas, trying to raise traumatized children with the press banging down her door at all hours of the day and night. And Malcolm was so bright and brave and curious at just the slightest encouragement. Everything he saw, he wanted to know more. It seemed... wrong to just let him fall through the cracks after he saved all those lives. Including mine."