No, Buffy. [ his voice is very soft, the words for her, not for the whole table. ] This is about more than Burt. What you are going to be doing - what you will all be doing on Andres - will not be from the shadows. There will be no hiding this.

It hasn't even been a year since I stood trial. If I am seen there, what do you think will become of me? [ he sounds strained, conflicted, and it's obvious that he's not worried about himself so much as feeling like the entire fight to keep him out of jail, the one that took all of them off the case for months, would be for nothing if that's where he wound up anyway. ]

And what if this is part of the Church's plan? It was not long ago they completed their successful 'test' that killed hundreds of Shadowkind in New York. We are leaving NOVA unwatched through all this.