"He's a traitor," she says quietly, like she's trying to remind herself of that. She'd turned her back on the rebellion when it (Saw) turn its back on her, but she didn't run to the Empire. Imperial death troopers had killed her mother right in front of her, right in front of him! How could he turn his back on the freedom her mother wanted so much to join the empire hell bent on crushing that freedom.

But then, he'd left her, too. Maybe it wasn't so hard to him to do.

"If they want him dead, what'll they do when you bring him back?" Not if -- when, because Jyn knows Cassian is capable of anything he puts his mind to. She always had more faith in him than in herself.