He was no longer a man protecting himself, and a man protecting himself can be frightened into submission.

He had become a father protecting his child, and there is nothing on earth you can threaten such a person with, because they have already decided that they will give anything, risk anything, burn anything, to keep the child safe.

Wendy Vance had spent five years hunting a frightened man, and she had, by finding him, accidentally created the one thing she could not defeat: a parent with nothing left to fear.

His daughter did not make him weak, as Wendy had assumed a child would, a hostage to be used against him.