Clark meets her gaze after a moment at what she says, and he wishes he knew the reasons why. He knows they want to give them answers. Why else would he be here if they didn't? He doesn't know what changed though. He doesn't know if this was in the plans all along, but he doubts it because it was encouraged by the people on the ship trying to find those answers.

It's why he was looking for Elena specifically, because she started looking for those answers first.

"I think it does want you to find the answers. Like to think so since that is, as far as I know, the reason I'm here," he says, and there is so much he doesn't know about himself. There are questions tangle in his mind. "Maybe it only needed those willing to look around, search for answers, determined to find a way for a specific reason, a good reason, doll. You started looking, and it gave a way. Wouldn't blame you for not trusting it. Wouldn't be smart to trust it completely, but I know the answers aren't on this ship. If they are, all of you would've gotten to them by now."