"Doubt your abilities?" He asked not really needing the confirmation, but five years was a long time even for someone who might have been on her way to becoming one of the best. However, that wasn't the point. Maybe he was fishing for information, but that meant taking a risk and putting himself out there. It wouldn't the first time he did so.
"If I did, I wouldn't be asking you if you would be willing to try and obliviate the nightmare-memory in my head." It was a simple indirect ask, but Eli imagined it held a lot more weight than the words allowed. He might not have actually known, but he had a notion. Samara was keeping something from him, there had been something wrong with his own head for few years now, but were those two related? And did he really want to know the answer?