"You truly are a tiring child," Tae says to Stu. They have all this evidence and he's just going to keep defending himself. "Have you considered that contrition might earn you some leniency?"

But no, that doesn't seem to occur to him at all. So she returns her attention to Billy. Because that really was an important point, the trust.

"The way I see it, the only person you seem to trust and be trusted by is Stu. Which makes me wonder. Billy, why is it so important Stu trusts you? I think that's more important right now than Dr. Wesker's unfortunately poorly chosen attempt to protect you."