He stiffens as he tries to decide how to even answer that. What could he tell Ran without revealing the Organization's involvement?

At last he simply nods.

"I still don't really understand everything that happened that night, but I remember her face."

He was trying to remember the details of the story they'd given the police. That there had been someone who'd tried to kidnap Haibara and himself. That it had been mostly foiled by Jodie as an off duty FBI agent. Had they confirmed that he'd been taken as a hostage? They must have. With the police arriving so close to the end, they must have given them some reason for his absence.