Jim does look up now, but there's very little anger in his expression. It's unease, bordering on fear. "The events themselves aren't. Our identities are."

That won't make sense, he knows. But he has to provide the context. "The man who seized power, who's responsible for four thousand deaths... he's still out there somewhere. There were only nine eyewitnesses who survived the massacre. If Kodos is ever found and captured... they don't want us dead before we can testify. It's witness protection."