possibly corrupt recovering military torturer hears torturer's friend speak up in support of recovery at a meeting and is triggered from their mind control they have finely tuned senses for the vulnerabilities of other people and can tell the friend is slightly uncomfortable about something they snap into gear recovering military torturer [to friend who tried to help them in meeting but accidentally triggered their control programming]: "you padded your hours didn't you!" torturer's friend [surprised, scared, defensive, called out in public]: "i ... did i? i make mistakes sometimes ... !" meeting-goer: "i pad my hours all the time, traffick boss said to!" recovering military torturer [taken aback a little, glancing at meeting goer, recovering, walking aggressively toward their friend]: "you're a spy! you're here to take us down!" torturer's friend [folding arms]: "i am not a spy! i am here to help everybody and everybody knows it!" torturer's friend [unfolding arms and looking at recovering military torturer]: "i hope you know this too!" recovering military torturer was going to identify their theft of an office pencil and hold them to public military trial for this with clear proof from surveillance tapes of them stealing an office pencil and clear documentation that this is against the rules [and then calm down when they finally win and apologize for their mind control [but they are taken aback by being asked if they know that their friend is here to help