[ Look, if he wants her to feel like he's got it all together, then that's how she'll feel. Mostly because this is a man that she has personally seen fly and appear out of nowhere and eat hearts and all other kinds of inexplicable magical shit -- how can she possibly think he's fallible after everything she's witnessed? Even the downfall of New Vegas seemed to be something otherworldly and out of his hands. She's not about to lose faith now.

Julie seems to instantly glow at his reassurance, though she quickly becomes somber again as she glances at the ground, then kneels on the bench instead. Her face turns up to him, submissive and contrite. ]

I want you to know, I'm so sorry 'bout runnin', y'know, back in Vegas. I was only runnin' because of the lightning. It wasn't anything to do with you or the plan, I swear.

[ Julie fails to understand the full magnitude of what took place in Vegas. She was, after all, among the first to die. ]