[And listen he does - he's quite good at it, actually, putting in quiet encouraging sounds at the right moments. And in the end it's as he suspected. The particulars are a little different, but the plot is a familiar one.]

But whatever else he does, you remember that he protected you, or he is reminding you that he did. For the sake of the man he was, it's hard to hate the man he became.

[A guess, but a reasonably informed one.]