"I didn't." It's the first thing that comes to mind after a silence that's probably too long. "I didn't think you were dead. I'd... I would never give up on you, not like that."

He puts his hand to the doorknob, realizes he hasn't answered her question, and drops it again. No expression, no expression, nothing that can give it away, not now when Captain America is in his father's lab and Olivia is about to read his fall and death - not now. "Yes. We can. We... I never doubted... We can."