"Maybe you've just never looked that closely before. I know I wouldn't want anyone coming too close, were I one of them." He is most definitely one of them. He just. Musters up as much courage and energy as he can manage to try and keep soldiering on, hard as it is with no finish line in sight.

"We have your back here, Neal. I know it is easy to say, difficult to accept, impossible to believe. But I hope you will keep it in mind, the longer you stay here. With a few more good days under our belt, we will come to be in a better space to deal with all this... cruelty that befalls us." A few more good days and a few more glasses of moonshine never hurt, either.