"No, I believe they will pardon him, not because I believe they are good and noble, but because he's a valuable asset. You work with them or they do kill you. Or we all run together. They are at no greater risk, because they won't trust any of us. Not a single one of us, April. We know that. We're not discounting the possibility that we'll have to run there, too, but there is the possibility that we won't. It's a risk, yes, but the alternative means moving from dimension to dimension, from town to town until we die." He was confused by the way she was presenting her case, though. "What kind of work did the government made him do? What do you think they made him do that they would make him do again?" If anything, Special Ops went to the most important missions, saving lives across the world. Derek knew that he was missing something, a lot of something, and couldn't reassure her without the information.
"I get that, April, but you have no money now. You have no identity. You just left a dimension that imploded on itself. What do you think it would happen in the next dimension? You have nothing. We have nothing. We are ghosts, and ghosts don't last, not with families." He knew a few people who could. He'd just spent five months with three of them, and he knew that for all of his undercover skills, he wasn't even as good as them. "I'm going to tell you what I told Eliot. We have no intention of keeping you with us, but even if we'd let you slip as you put it, you'd be dead. They have your counterparts. How long before they found you? We have video recognition. We have phones under control. If they really want to find someone, they will find them. You have to start thinking what do you want to teach her daughter? Can you really have her on the run forever? Never settling, never trusting anyone, never dating, never marrying, because that's what you will be doing to her, because she will never be able to explain the differences, the two sets of powers she has, the lack of birth certificate, social security. I think those are things you need to consider, because it's all nice and well now that she's a baby, but that baby will become a teenager and eventually a woman."