( "Says the former doppelganger," he quips back.

Katherine knows they need more firepower - more than Elena's compassion, so she turns to Natalie and drops down. )

Natalie. Get it together. Nadia is alive. She's over there frozen with fear. That's not you. You push through life. I do, too. It's why I am where I am.

( a (6) gets Natalie's attention, but her silence isn't broken, the despair creeping along her brows. )