Sloane has checked Lilah's background and knows about the Vietnam death, but then again, he knows what his own files say if she bothered to investigate, which he does expect of her. Changing names and backgrounds is the easiest thing in the world, and as an agent, he used to do it in a heartbeat. So he makes no assumptions based on it.
Which of course implies he served in Vietnam as well, and that it happened there. While Sloane was occasionally in Vietnam, it was never as a soldier, and he actually associates the place with one of his fondest memories; toasting Sydney's birth together with Jack. Still, his statement is as true as hers was. He had his series of moments like that, and usually in subtropical climates, whether in South America or Indochina, as that was where the CIA was working at the time.
"But they definitely did not lead me to join the peace movement,"
he says and smiles at her. Not that he hadn't wanted to achieve world peace at one time. But in a very different way, and the fact that Nadia was paying the price for what Elena had turned that way into ate at him day and night. Still, no thoughts of a Rambaldi formula added to the water of many of the word's cities can be read from his pleasant, ironic expression.
"I'm afraid I rather came to the mundane conclusion that the rewards of patriotism were too one sided for me."
Also true as far as it went. Getting into business for himself was one of the conclusions he had arrived at, but he also had known that this alone wouldn't satisfy. Arvin Sloane has always needed something to believe in. It was one of the differences between him and Jack Bristow, whose own disillusionment had not led to any of the same results.
The main course arrives, and the waiter asks Lilah whether she wishes to change her drink of choice.
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Date: 2006-01-17 07:33 pm (UTC)"Whose cynicsm isn't?"
he replies, equally lightly. "I dare say my own was forged by them as well. I did have that dreadfully cliché moment when I looked up, surrounded by subtropical climate and a lot of dead bodies, and wondered what the hell I was doing there."
Which of course implies he served in Vietnam as well, and that it happened there. While Sloane was occasionally in Vietnam, it was never as a soldier, and he actually associates the place with one of his fondest memories; toasting Sydney's birth together with Jack. Still, his statement is as true as hers was. He had his series of moments like that, and usually in subtropical climates, whether in South America or Indochina, as that was where the CIA was working at the time.
"But they definitely did not lead me to join the peace movement,"
he says and smiles at her. Not that he hadn't wanted to achieve world peace at one time. But in a very different way, and the fact that Nadia was paying the price for what Elena had turned that way into ate at him day and night. Still, no thoughts of a Rambaldi formula added to the water of many of the word's cities can be read from his pleasant, ironic expression.
"I'm afraid I rather came to the mundane conclusion that the rewards of patriotism were too one sided for me."
Also true as far as it went. Getting into business for himself was one of the conclusions he had arrived at, but he also had known that this alone wouldn't satisfy. Arvin Sloane has always needed something to believe in. It was one of the differences between him and Jack Bristow, whose own disillusionment had not led to any of the same results.
The main course arrives, and the waiter asks Lilah whether she wishes to change her drink of choice.