"I'm not even sure it's his alliance that makes me so upset," Simmons reasons, trying to think through the complicated tangle of emotions that Ward now brings up every time she lets her mind drift to him. "It's that he spent so long lying to us. Now I look back and I wonder if any of it was real, whether he was spending all the time thinking of ways to kill us," she says, wringing her hands. "I thought he was our friend."