[Laura finds her mouth suddenly dry. She licks her lips.]

That wasn't your fault.

[She examines the ring carefully, but doesn't put it on.]

Is this going to make some kind of...contract, between me and the Admiral? He gets something in exchange for the protection?

[When she put on MIKE's ring, it kept BOB from seizing control of her body. It also bound her soul to MIKE until she died...giving him the freedom to eat her final release of pain and sorrow after she was killed, when it would normally have belonged to BOB.]