"This is a trick," he said, closing his eyes. "It's a trick. I know what you're going to do, put me in a building on the outskirts of Grozny and call in an airstrike. Just another casualty of war."

Or, worse, use him as bait for Jake and take them both out with one fell swoop.

"Did you tell Jack I was okay?" The distinction was important. Jack, not Jake. 'Jack' should have been enough of a warning to Jake to get him to know something was very wrong. If she corrects him and says 'Jake', he'll know he broke under torture and talked. And that would have killed them both.