Up here? [And here's another thing that's very, very hard to explain to someone that hasn't already been through it and come out the other side. He takes a deep breath to calm himself, chafes his hands together, frowns down at them.]

Look, the thing is... as... totally lame as this place is sometimes, it can work, you know? I mean, I've seen it work. And that means whatever scumbag cut up your boy, there's three things ahead for him: either he goes through all this shit and one day he rolls up at the door and says he's sorry for what he did, like, really sorry... or he doesn't, and he keeps going through shit for nothing, probably way longer than you and me. Or the Admiral dumps him, and he goes back to... wherever.