"People can't always believe what they don't see, Martha. Even if they can, sometimes it's... just best they don't."

Sometimes he wishes he could take it all back; that he was the only one on the Valiant to remember what happened. The Jones family, and Jack, and Lucy... None of them should have suffered because he couldn't stop the Master before that year started.

But at least the world forgot.

"Events change people, for better or for worse. Without those events though, they can't be what you want them to be."

He tightens an arm around her in a squeeze to mimic a hug.

"I'm sorry."