Not sure about that, but there's definitely protocols on in-house relationships between handlers and assets when there's life and death situations around the corner. Phil always loved reciting the protocols as a form of torture, not that it ever really was, but it was enough that I never went there.

[ He shrugs again, a habit that's not quite a tell because he does it so much, but he definitely feels weird discussing it, though not necessarily bad, and it doesn't escape his notice that there's discomfort. ]