This pause is longer, and L is very still for a few seconds, before beginning his answer with a definite nod. It's clear that he's decided to take the question seriously, rather than as a throwaway.

"Yes. It depends on whether or not what I saw is accurate, but... do you remember the story about the high-level prisoner, a woman who was attractive, but 'creepy'? It was Resnik. She was Gallagher's former wife."

His manner becomes a little more dismissive; he deflates, deep in thought. "That, or that's what someone wanted me to think--or I have an active imagination. But what happened before, the events that we could confirm because we saw things from each other's histories... it gave everything that happened afterward some credibility that it might not have had otherwise."