[After the message is posted and the video's no longer recording, he turns to Ned again, eyebrow raised, looking somewhere between thoughtful and skeptical.]
How likely do you think it is that anyone's going to have the kind of information that'd actually provide us with enough help to figure out what really happened here?
[He's well aware that he sounds cynical, perhaps tiresomely so, but cynicism has served him well in the past, and somehow, he has the feeling that Ned's not much more optimistic than he is. He feels like he's been chasing after information that may or may not exist for quite some time, now, and he's growing frustrated.]
I HAVE AN URGENT PREFERENCE FOR NED
How likely do you think it is that anyone's going to have the kind of information that'd actually provide us with enough help to figure out what really happened here?
[He's well aware that he sounds cynical, perhaps tiresomely so, but cynicism has served him well in the past, and somehow, he has the feeling that Ned's not much more optimistic than he is. He feels like he's been chasing after information that may or may not exist for quite some time, now, and he's growing frustrated.]