Would that really stop you? [ Maybe he's a little too confident now. After all, Luke clearly likes him enough to keep him around. ]

I don't see what that has to do with anything, anyway. [ He's not nice but he is angry. Aren't politicians angry? Somewhere on the inside probably. His face twitches when Luke mentions what he's seen, the particularly embarrassing moments of his grief. ] It's not like you were there to go back with me. [ It's upsetting to think about. ]

... I didn't want anyone to see. That's why I went there. I thought you were really, actually gone and... it was only four days but I felt like I lost something important that I could never get back.