Uh, well. I-it wasn't anything here, but, um, on that excision this week... w-well, the whole story's really long and complicated, but to save Bradley and Jason, I had to... I had to kill this kid.

[ he takes a deep breath and closes his eyes. ]

I, uh... I explained to him that it was the only way to save them, a-and he agreed to it, because he wanted to save them too, but... it just... felt really, really bad, and I've... kind of been having a hard time with it.