[Varian is in the middle, so he watches as Salieri reaches to press her button for her. It's too late to stop that, but-

He reaches and (gently) grabs Salieri's wrist as he draws his hand back.]

Wait, maybe- maybe there's something we can do. There has to be some...some way around this, some sort of loophole, or-

[There has to be. Elisabeth didn't even attempt murder, even after admitting to contemplating such.

It's worse than if she'd done it knowingly.]