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I’m not completely confident, either, but I was thinking the same thing. It’s not okay to start a sentence with “which”, but if the period between sentences was a comma instead, it would be perfectly fine.
So this sounds like it's one of those arbitrary technicalities that isn't a big deal, in a single flow of dialog at least. When a character is speaking, the difference between a period and a comma is a convention of the written medium, in the spoken word it's not such a clear delineation.
Now, if another character was responding to what the first character said, "this" over "which" seems like it might be more important.