[Walter is surprised, cutting through the emotional maelstrom he's in; at first he thinks the sentence is missing an 'of you', but - Ben wouldn't leave such a thing out, right?]

Thanks.

[Though, it shouldn't need thanks, should it? It's the right thing to do, after all... Just not something everyone can do, or necessarily should.]

Jo-Li was Chinese, fourteen years old. An only child.

She wanted to kill herself. And Webmind, if it was still him, provided links to ways of doing so. Encouraged her to go through with it, even.

I think she was expecting him to talk her out of it; instead, all he explained was that it was wrong to simply watch.

[And that's the kicker; same core motivation, exactly the opposite course of action.]