Daniel inwardly braces himself for the inevitable, the display of aggressive machismo that he has exactly zero time or patience for and silently curses the Rift, again, for its cruel, cruel sense of humor in deciding to put him and Peter in the same room and then physically chain them together.

Seth's declaration comes as a surprise - put through a wall? Is he speaking figuratively? - but Daniel recovers enough to try and smooth things over, the operative word being try.

"Look," he says, doing his very best not to sound as incensed as he is, "Lucy was literally the first person I met when I came through the Rift. What was I supposed to do? Whatever is, is going on with you two, you're gonna have to sort it out without - hauling in third parties indiscriminately."