[Not a good idea: attempting to go with her. She just had to remind him of what happened, didn't she? And all that anxiety is stirred right back up, and —
It takes a moment, but Saul talks himself out of it.]
Keep me in the loop, okay?
[And then it hits him, that this might be the last time he has a chance to — do anything, really, without causing Stephanie too much guilt. Because he knows, as sure as he's ever known anything, how her conversation with Ellie is going to go. And that'll be it.
So he makes absolutely no movement to indicate that he's going anywhere, just yet.]
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[Not a good idea: attempting to go with her. She just had to remind him of what happened, didn't she? And all that anxiety is stirred right back up, and —
It takes a moment, but Saul talks himself out of it.]
Keep me in the loop, okay?
[And then it hits him, that this might be the last time he has a chance to — do anything, really, without causing Stephanie too much guilt. Because he knows, as sure as he's ever known anything, how her conversation with Ellie is going to go. And that'll be it.
So he makes absolutely no movement to indicate that he's going anywhere, just yet.]