Yeah, I'm definitely seeing the advantage now of not being connected to law enforcement. It provides a lot of freedom to do the right thing, which... unfortunately, police officers don't always have.

[It's a nice ego boost, to have a pretty girl telling him that he's good. In a way, that's all he's ever wanted, that acknowledgment that finally he's doing something right.]

Who else would I tell? Besides, it's not embarrassing. Things happen, it just means that school wasn't a good fit.

[He pauses. For him, it had pretty much meant a volcanic nervous breakdown.]

Is that what it meant?