eobard | hartley.
I could have ended you. Maybe I should have.
And they thought I was talking about the explosion.
I should have told them. But I didn't have it all worked out. That you were faking being in the chair, yes, but that could easily have been a way of drawing sympathy after the accident. Make it clear you suffered too, in order to deflect criticism. The speedster from the future thing was a surprise.