Season 1 Episode 10 from 28:00 to 30:30 screenshots here
DESCRIPTION:
The memory opens by showing Five approaching a motel room - and then being invited in by the Handler. Once inside, he finds the woman working at Girdy is being held hostage. Not that he cares particularly.
The Handler apparently sent him a message, and starts explaining how much damage Five has done since they last saw each other. Five cuts her off and asks her what she wants, to which she goes on another rant about how she wants to be happy and just do her job, which she can't while Five is there.
Five once more tries to reason with her, explaining that billions of people will die tonight, but that she can change that. The Handler, however, doubles down on the Commission's raison d'être - what's meant to be is meant to be. She once more offers him a way out, tells him he can skip ahead of the apocalypse and wander there for decades, waiting to see if she'll offer him a job again, or die a horrible death.
She then concludes with "while you weigh your options, just know that your siblings are fighting for their lives without you", which makes it clear that the objective was actually to keep him away for long enough.
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Memory 24: The Handler's last offer
DESCRIPTION:
The memory opens by showing Five approaching a motel room - and then being invited in by the Handler. Once inside, he finds the woman working at Girdy is being held hostage. Not that he cares particularly.
The Handler apparently sent him a message, and starts explaining how much damage Five has done since they last saw each other. Five cuts her off and asks her what she wants, to which she goes on another rant about how she wants to be happy and just do her job, which she can't while Five is there.
Five once more tries to reason with her, explaining that billions of people will die tonight, but that she can change that. The Handler, however, doubles down on the Commission's raison d'être - what's meant to be is meant to be. She once more offers him a way out, tells him he can skip ahead of the apocalypse and wander there for decades, waiting to see if she'll offer him a job again, or die a horrible death.
She then concludes with "while you weigh your options, just know that your siblings are fighting for their lives without you", which makes it clear that the objective was actually to keep him away for long enough.
At that, he leaves immediately.