"You were...an obstacle to me at that time, not...not a person."

Leonard props a hand on his knee and starts to stand again; the pain isn't easing, but it isn't growing worse, which is a bit of a change. The words don't make him look very good, but they are the truth, at least in its own measure. It seems to be good enough to cause things not to continue to accelerate, in any case.

"The actions of Sigma, what he'd caused Maine to do, were causing us far too much trouble. I had to find some way to draw things to a tidy close."