...I don't know that there would have been a way. He warned us there wouldn't be a way to break him out of it, but I thought-- maybe he was wrong.

[it sounds like he wasn't, though. if there were a way, if he could be broken out, then surely between them... surely they would have managed, if it was possible.

her eyes sting, but she's fighting it for the moment.]

You did what you could.