[ Something he'd been hoping she wouldn't ask, frankly. And the way she does, he's got the feeling a breezy answer's not going to satisfy her. But the reality--if it comes down to you and Wade, I know how that's gonna go--isn't something he can bring himself to voice. If there's one thing he knows, after decades of this, it's that talking about all the ways someone else could kill a contender's a great way to see them get killed. ]

I'm rooting for all of you 'til I gotta choose. [ It's always tough, seeing multiple friends in the same round. This is how he always handles it. ] Maybe they take each other out--maybe someone else does. Maybe there's traps. Or maybe you get the drop on one of 'em, do something tricky. There's a lotta ways things could go. You can't count yourself out, all right?