Oh is pretty much all Julian needs to say, especially coupled with the recognition. Still, Sam asks anyway, and the answer he gets is even more telling.

Julian getting out means, in one way or another, the person he was supposed to kill ended up dead. Which at the very least makes this indirectly Julian’s first kill, and that’s… hard on soldiers, let alone on an inexperienced kid.

Sam doesn’t stop him from building the pillow barrier, if he needs something to help him deal with this conversation, but he doesn’t bite on the subject change. “What happened?”