"Yes. I'm real happy for 'em."

And she is. But she can't keep the quaver from her voice as she studies his body language.

'I'll have t'congratulate him on gettin' t'be a father


again.'

(Unlike Doc, who lost his son, and may never get to be a father again.)


That resolve, that strength of will, crumbles at last, like cordons snapping from a hollowed out building.

And it all comes tumbling down.