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They ask him how he's doing, check his daily progress, but they all blur into one faceless entity, one who avoids certain topics altogether: so much better to focus on looking forward, instead of looking back.
DI Drake's the only one who asks about where he's been. If she thinks he's crazy – the way Sam worries everyone must think he's crazy, by now – she never puts it in those words. She believes that he believes, and he needs that so much.
Talking about it's no good substitute for living it, but there's no getting back the things that he's lost.