He wants to believe Mark's confidence, but Loki hadn't been so clear cut with him. "How do we get them out when they don't want to, though? David doesn't even want to see me again."

Maybe -- maybe that was the point. Remove anything that could pull them out of it. So maybe there was a way to chip at that.

"I didn't sense them, and my magic is illusion-based. But that isn't to say they aren't stored somewhere, or don't still have some connection to his mind. As I understand it, they're quite integrated."