Once the guards are no longer actively considering moving forward K ignores them completely. Instead he reaches for Sara's hand, too, and follows her out of the building.

His own frame is veritably singing with all the things he doesn't know and can only imagine has gone on in the last week, with all the things that have happened to him that he's compartmentalizing to think about later, but his attention is steady and silent on her.

"I want to talk when we get to the apartment," he warns her as soon as they're more or less alone outside.