"And do what, Korra? Tie their hands up? Use the scanners the Malnosso give out? There is no solution here. If we don't kill them, the Malnosso either do it themselves or they lock them up. And we've got some pretty good suspicions about where that leads."

He stayed vague on that point because it was a pretty weak one.

"I know you're upset about what happened. But don't make me the bad guy because of it. I wasn't just taking lives on TERRACE. I was saving them too."