On the last planet, when he had seen for himself that what the SCENT agents were doing was wrong—or rather, that they were doing wrong things in order to accomplish something right—it had been another matter; he had felt the need to step forward and take a stand to protect good people whom the SCENT agents were willing to abandon? But there was Goldstein on his knees, gasping, his face contorted in agony and his arms held up at strange, strained angles.