What, you mean by graduating? [He laughs sharply.] No, I couldn't have! I don't hurt people, I've admitted that mind control is bad and I won't do it again, and I waste all my time in the infirmary, tending to people-- what more could the Admiral want?! Even this, I planned to execute in a way that wouldn't hurt anybody!

And you're deluded if you think those 'heroes' rushed in there for me. They didn't do it for me; they would've done it for anybody. Why should I assign some special, personal significance to that?

You don't understand. They made my life better while in captivity. They made it tolerable, for a prison. Friendship on the Barge is a salve, something nice, soothing, distracting, but not a cure. At the end of the day, with all my friends, I was still a prisoner.