Liz appreciates a lack of sugarcoating. She can handle the truth, no matter how harsh. It's lies she hates, and she loathes the fact that keeping Max's secret makes her a hypocrite in that, but it's not safe. Sometimes lies were necessary, but one should tell the truth when they could and it didn't put people's lives on the line.

"I guess that helps people deal with the loss better," she offers. "Someone said that there were people here who've been here for close to two years. All that time and our captors haven't given us any sort of reason for being here?"