Mark looks back at Kasumi.<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;">"He is actively jeopardizing mission security, threatening to shatter our protective <em>smoke screen</em>. May I kill him now, before he would <em>grab away </em> any chance of successsfully meeting <em>our objective </em> that we have?"</span><br/><br/>It was the best he could do in terms of communicating a secret message - his non-violent interaction skills were unfortunately limited. It was also the best plan he could come up with that didn't involve killing the ambassador, as much as he would prefer that route.