[Is this helping? He can't tell. He wants to yell at her to get the fuck off his case and he wants to shove her away and storm off and find some corner to sit in and...and what? Relive his time in prison wallowing in his own inadequacy? Never again. He said never again. But he doesn't need to be bludgeoned upside the head with his own lack of action. It feels like all he's done since getting here is react. The feeling is ugly. If he knew how to seize the moment, seize control of something...]

I'm TRYING to come up with ANYTHING, anything at all! You think I enjoy being stuck? You think I wouldn't be dragging you out with the first decent idea I had? I'm not trying to do nothing, for fuck's sake, I'm trying to think of something we can actually DO.