[He can tell that Winston is thinking he’s overly-paranoid—that maybe this is just the wild conspiracy theory of a soldier who doesn’t know when the fight is over, someone who keeps chasing ghosts because he doesn’t know what else to do. Jack is well aware how crazy he sounds, but he also knows what he’s talking about.

Or he likes to think he does. Saying it all out loud to Winston, who has only ever believed in the cause, has him doubting himself, if only slightly.

Jack visibly tries to shake it off—something to snap him back into the moment and refute Winston all at once.]

Yeah, and who do you think pushed those projects in the first place? Not them. Me.

[It would have been very easy for Jack to keep Overwatch a military operation. He’d known from the start that it could be so much more, and devoted his tenure as Strike Commander to those advancements. He still remembers the fight to keep Angela’s technology from being weaponized. Another promise he couldn’t keep.]

It starts at the top, and it wasn’t gonna last forever. We were set up to take the fall.