"Cecil, you don't have to feel bad about this. No one's mind is impermeable, and you--- You've been hurt. Everyone has cracks in their armor, this just happens to be yours," Gerry insists very firmly. "I worry not because I think you're weak, but because you matter to me. More than anything else ever has. And I have a lot of skill in this area, that I earned from a life of non-stop bullshit and beatings. Let me use it for something that matters."