You wanted to protect Peter and the captains wouldn’t cooperate. So you took matters into your own hands. [Alan still doesn’t approve, but he does understand. They weren’t protected by the system in place on the ship -- in their eyes, pre-emptive violence was likely the last option available to them.]

And you and Peter would know from experience that even if you did succeed in killing Rinzler, you would only be punished with a few days in here. [A small price to pay if they believed it would ensure their safety. Alan had known the justice system on the ship was flawed from the second he had witnessed the sentencing at the first trial, but only now does he realize the true extent of its backwardness: it had done nothing to protect the people on the ship and in fact had only made the conflict worse.

The next question is blunt, without any attempt at sugarcoating the matter.] Were you planning to try again once you were released?