I can appreciate a man who takes the difficult road because it's difficult. I do the same; it's a matter of pride more often than not.

Ah. [He smiles a little, and pauses, thinking baout switching it over to private - but it seems well known already. Anyone doing their homework may as well know. It's too small a ship for cover identities, anyway.]

I work for MI6, O Branch, 00 Section. I take care of foreign threats to Her Majesty's Realm. I kill people.

I kill a lot of people.

[Monk, meet hitman.]

Were your hunches right?