He doesn't really flinch at the intent, because she's been broadcasting it for years. But the idea that the Protector hasn't really changed, it... it seems wrong.

"But you just said he was different." There's some irritation in his voice, is she trying to pull a fast one? "What changed?"

Poor Garrot is expecting some single linchpin moment and not a gradual descent into paranoid hatred. Yikes.