We can't make that judgement until we know the full nature of the SCP. Part of our duty is to maintain professional distance from our experiences, to more effectively evaluate them. Even if those emotions were genuine, they weren't ours, so we have to find out their origin.

[He remembers the tears on his face, too much like the ones he shed in that cell in Resurgam, the ones pulled from him by Holden's blunt words and his own shame. Something feels unpleasantly tight in his chest, another thing to compartmentalize and leave for a much later time.]