[There's a silence that stretches out. Carter isn't sure if it's something he said or if it's just a very emotional subject for her. He certainly doesn't expect people to see her differently from how he sees her - and if he knew he'd be outraged.]

Do you know what these gauntlets do? How they-- how they divert the...

[No, who cares about that, he's not an engineer, there's no way he could build something like that anyway.]

... what exactly it is they're diverting? Where does the tremor start? In you? Do you... send it? Like a seismic wave?

[He stares at the books and it's obvious that the gears in his head are turning, that he's trying to make sense of it from a physicians perspective. This is new and unfamiliar to him, yes, but what's more important to him right now is that there is a problem for his patient and he has to find a solution.

God, he really hopes he remembers enough high school physics for this.]