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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 1819566" data-attributes="member: 5">He really only says that after his counterpart (a captain like him and a former lover, to boot!) chases him all over the wilderness, constantly goading him into opening up and talking about the situation rather than burying it like he was.  It's not like they opened the episode with him on the therapists' couch. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />She runs into him in a bar and he doesn't want to talk.  She finds out that he is off rock-climbing, so she follows him, uninvited.  She's constantly making little probing comments to find out what is wrong, exactly.  Finally, he has that nightmare and she catches him in a moment of weakness and gets him to open up.I think they make it pretty clear he had everry intention of bottling it up, and she was perhaps the one person who knew both his situation and him well enough to help him begin to work it out.The problem with minor changes that aren't well explained is they aren't lost on audience members, they just seem like they are either poor acting choices or writing mistakes.  I think that might be further complicated by the fact that they are trying to retrive some lost viewers who would just as soon all of what happned over the last year or two was settled and behind us.</blockquote>

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