That is... that is literally the definition of family you'd get if you googled it, isn't it? Is this really happening? What the hell is this conversation? Why the hell are they having it now?

"You think... a group of military personnel... with nowhere else to go except prison... is equivalent to adoption? I don't..."

She can't even begin to wrap her head around this. This sort of explains some things and yet raises a thousand more questions because what?

"We are not family. Dysfunctional or otherwise. You are one of the command structure of a dead program and I have no tie to you that I haven't already cut."