[Yeah, sometimes even the people who know him don't follow every detail, and he's only half-talking to explain to Will, half just...finding his own way through it again. Because it's a lot, it's so much, and he's gone over the event enough times just the way he'd actually lived it, without having this, this alternate reality to consider.

And that's the question. Harrison lifts another forkful, then sets it back down on the plate, sets the plate on the table, folds his arms over the back of the chair.]

No one went down there. [He takes a breath, lets it out.] I didn't let anyone. Go down there. Instead I shut everything down and vented the dark matter eruption through a...a neighboring building. [A neighboring institute for the criminally insane, but who's counting?] It didn't go up and out, none of my staff were affected, and in doing that, I created Central City's greatest threat. But my staff was more important. In the moment.