Seth seems to catch on to where Daniel's been trying to guide the conversation, what he's been mentally preparing himself to hear for the entire week-or-so, but it's still not easy to take in. And it's an incomplete explanation, but he already has access to one side of the story. He just needs the other.

"I think you'll find we're trying to keep an open mind here," he begins patiently, "though a good starting point for both parties would be forgiveness."

Daniel lingers a little too long on that final word, not for any tactical purpose but for purely selfish reasons. He locks eyes with Seth for a second but quickly finds a section of floor to be infinitely more interesting.

"And if we can work out the point where things started to go wrong," he continues, verging on thinly-veiled double meanings, "we might be able to prevent it from happening again."

That, paired with the message left in the book, should be enough. Theoretically. Definitely. The message - assuming the way Daniel hid it makes any sense to Seth at all - asks for limited information on his attempts to get out of here. Daniel just needs to know how they failed so he can circumvent those same mistakes.