[She blinks at this information, trying to make it fit with everything she knew of her friend.]

He - he was likely scared, but did not wish to admit to such a thing. Men will say foolish things when they wish to appear brave. My cousin does this often. I have seen his reaction from the devices, after I returned home, and seen the concern he displayed for me. He has never attempted such things upon me, Mr. Spencer. Never. And if he told Madara such things, it was likely an attempt to enrage the man and loosen his hold upon us all. Men who are enraged cannot control things easily, and this I know to be true, regardless of what it is they control. And he was part of the party which rescued us all - hardly something one would do if he felt no sympathy for those taken.

If he does possess such a tool, then the other Lord of Time must possess it as well. And that one, I do not trust. What have your observations told you of him, of the Doctor?