[Adam has several questions about what she just said, but they're unimportant, so he focuses on the last statement.]
I won't get far if I try a stunt like that. Besides, I wouldn't make that kind of trade even if I could. I couldn't live with myself.
[That's not true. He could, more easily than he'd like to admit. She's a stranger to him, after all, and he has no reason to care what happens to her after he's out of this room. It's the uselessness of the gesture that keeps him from attempting it. It would be one thing if it could work, and quite another to throw a person under the bus for a plan that will ultimately fail.]
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I won't get far if I try a stunt like that. Besides, I wouldn't make that kind of trade even if I could. I couldn't live with myself.
[That's not true. He could, more easily than he'd like to admit. She's a stranger to him, after all, and he has no reason to care what happens to her after he's out of this room. It's the uselessness of the gesture that keeps him from attempting it. It would be one thing if it could work, and quite another to throw a person under the bus for a plan that will ultimately fail.]