It works, inasmuch as it coaxes a brief smile from Cosima. She leans a bit into Avery.

"So, yeah. Anyway, all that's ... so since we're not even supposed to know we're clones, they can't just randomly ask us to submit to medical tests. But they need data. So they get close to us through people in our lives, who can observe us without raising suspicion. I'd figured out that my girlfriend was the one watching me, but I'd just dumped her to move halfway across the country. And then out of nowhere this gorgeous foreign student turns up in my new program."