"I'm not stupid, York," he says. "Why would I bring him in here with you?" He isn't giving York the chance to get hold of Delta.

Wash doesn't look away, meets York's eyes squarely. "In the event of a Freelancer dying, we were told the AIs would be destroyed along with us. They lied. The AIs are encrypted instead, locked down into dormancy. Failsafe. If the Freelancers died, they have other agents who can be sent out to recover the armour and AIs. Return them to the project."