"Guilty as charged," he says, raising both arms as if in surrender. Animals were one thing; he still didn't really know how to deal with babies. "But I do agree that their flowers were beautiful." The problem was what happened if you ever tried to pick any.

Zouichi will probably never tell Eva that the other reason he finds Cordie reassuring is that if anything ever happens to Eva, that cat will know.

"Hey -- someone needed to shoot down those thermonuclear warheads. Although I wish Archer would stop insisting that I'm interested in him. You save a secret agent's life one time, and he'll never let you live it down." He smiles. "I will. How is Marco?"