How can we be sure though? The two of you are doubting it, right in front of me, and I actually have a relationship with you. What about everyone else, who barely knows us?

[ he places a hand over his ear and breathes deeply. ]

I know that we made mistakes. But these are still the choices we made, and we can't take them back. All we want is to send everyone home, and if we aren't in the final three to make that happen, so be it. We are also prepared for that choice because, as I have already said, we were ready to tell others in order to get the word out. Dipper, Mabel, taking a life is not an enjoyable experience of any kind, and it kills more than just the victim. It may have been wrong and selfish of me to do all of this, but I refused to let you dirty your hands even more than they already have been. Even if the only life you'd be taking would be your own.