The way Cole briefly smiles and his face lights up doesn't go unnoticed by Five, who tilts her head and briefly wrinkles her nose in mild amusement before she's back to smiling herself. If he'd wanted her to help that much, he could have asked! But she's glad she seems to be doing the right thing here, anyway. Maybe that's another way in which they're alike: that seeing someone else happy makes them happy? Or maybe that's the same for everyone.

Listening to him recount how he got here, Five nods in understanding. "Uh huh. Sounds right. Guess that means we're both pretty new to all this, huh?"

She can only assume from the 'I'm the same as you' that Cole either had seen her at the ball, had heard her maybe mention being brought in at that time to someone, or... it's like how he knew the whole not-mother memory. Because he knows 'the hurts and the happiness.'