Rush shrugs. The name hadn't meant anything to him - their former fields hadn't really overlapped, and everything after that was a dozen different kinds of classified - but what he managed to glean in the short time he was at Homeworld Command seems very promising. And the initial data on the tesseract he'd been allowed access to was extremely interesting. He's not willing to commit to 'promising' just yet; not until he's had more time to look at what they're actually dealing with here. But it's certainly interesting.

"The message was second-hand," he clarifies. It was passed on by the SHIELD liason, sans any mention of who it was from. But it's hardly surprising that she too has people waiting for her back on Earth. "They were quite specific about passing it on verbatim." At her request he inclines his head in an 'of course' sort of gesture. "I'm sure I can pass something on."