It was an interesting comparison to hear Jason make. Were he and Samara similar to Grindelwald and Pandora? From what history said he couldn't be sure of their exact relationship, but Eli loved Samara with everything he could. Absent minded, he rubbed his thumb over his tattoo on his ring finger. Eli already suspected that Samara would go to any length she could for something that mattered to her and his was move driven by the desire to know.
There was a fine line between greatness and madness, and Eli had often found men like Grindelwald to be largely misunderstood geniuses - so perhaps they weren't so different after all.
"That's right," he said agreeing, "I would never let anything happened to your mum or to you. And she is having some rather scary nightmares that are upsetting." Eli leaned forward as if to tell his son a secret because in some ways it was. "And I have been having them too, which worried me a little. So I'm going to need you to be extra good, brave and brilliant for us. Do you think you could do that?"