[He says it in his usual Albert way, but with it comes the perpetual implication — the same one that was there years ago when all this started, when Cooper said, "a year from now you'll help me solve this case", and Albert didn't say, "you're crazy" or "there's something wrong with you" or even "not a chance"; he simply said, "let's test it, then", and put his skepticism on the line to let Coop prove him wrong — the perpetual implication that it's really irrelevant for him to say so in the first place, because saying so like that, like it's a question, suggests that there's a chance that Albert wouldn't help.
And that's stupid. It's a waste of words, and time, and sentiment.
As though Albert wouldn't help when Cooper needed it. As though he wouldn't drive half the day out into the middle of boondock nowhere because Coop found a dead girl wrapped in plastic and they all needed answers to why. As though he wasn't already three steps out the door the minute Gordon told him COOP'S BEEN SHOT before he'd even stuck around to get the details of how and when and where.
As though he wasn't sitting there agonizing for two minutes and four seconds while the machines were flatlining and his knuckles were turning white in his hands.
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[He says it in his usual Albert way, but with it comes the perpetual implication — the same one that was there years ago when all this started, when Cooper said, "a year from now you'll help me solve this case", and Albert didn't say, "you're crazy" or "there's something wrong with you" or even "not a chance"; he simply said, "let's test it, then", and put his skepticism on the line to let Coop prove him wrong — the perpetual implication that it's really irrelevant for him to say so in the first place, because saying so like that, like it's a question, suggests that there's a chance that Albert wouldn't help.
And that's stupid. It's a waste of words, and time, and sentiment.
As though Albert wouldn't help when Cooper needed it. As though he wouldn't drive half the day out into the middle of boondock nowhere because Coop found a dead girl wrapped in plastic and they all needed answers to why. As though he wasn't already three steps out the door the minute Gordon told him COOP'S BEEN SHOT before he'd even stuck around to get the details of how and when and where.
As though he wasn't sitting there agonizing for two minutes and four seconds while the machines were flatlining and his knuckles were turning white in his hands.
Like Cooper needs to ask.
Now that's a laugh.]
I'm listening.