[There’s a second’s hesitation before he answers, but he’s still finding it impossible not to answer direct questions.] Yes. But it didn’t really feel much like a victory. I got rid of the aliens and managed to save most of the children, but I’d lost you, and the Hub and everything in it, and Steven and Alice. [Forgetting for a moment that Ianto doesn’t even know Steven and Alice exist, let alone what happened to them.]
It really wasn’t what I’d class as one of my best days ever.