"If that lieutenant knew enough to bring him down, yes."
Stevens and the lieutenant both know these systems well enough that they should be able to handle the computer even without his help.
The lieutenant knew the man on sight: even in death.
"I just hope the lieutenant knows what to do after that," he ended.
The four lieutenants knew one another well enough to be friends in the loose sense of the word.
For a second or so, the lieutenant didn't know where the bolt had come from.
In that case, the lieutenant knew, his own life and the others' would be forfeit.
There would be no excuse in the eyes of his captain, the lieutenant knew.
It was as if the lieutenant hardly knew him.
The lieutenant didn't know what was wrong, but he knew that he had lost the argument.