Yup. What's your point? ;-)
> Neil is not a diplomat and appears
> to be an expert at driving people away.
But that's one of the enigmas - Willie never deserts him, in fact puts
his own career on the line to support Neil at Malta, Jeff continues to
provide at least an ear, Maryanne tries to wake him up. These people
should have been driven away, but they weren't. They continued to stand
by him and support him.
I don't think Neil can ever become the rock-hard, emotionless man he
seems to want to be. He cares just a little too much. Whatever happened
to Willie in the last scene, might be enough to wake him. I keep
expecting some kind of breakdown - maybe that's where the series could
have gone, had it continued.
> But is it healthy
> to dislike someone or avoid someone just because they're alive?
You think Neil is healthy? Actually, someone else has answered this
pretty well - I too think it's a common response to loss, an irrational
dislike of those who still have whatever the individual lost.
BTW, Neil called Laura a bitch, too. And I think his epithet in reference
to Karen has to do with not getting the help he thinks he needs from the
CIA. He thinks neither she nor Jeff asked Langley for the help; later he
realizes what an idiot he's been, while he's on the phone to Willie. Of
course, he doesn't apologise.
What I want to know, is why does Wellingham support Neil? Why does he
want him back as his son-in-law?
Nicole
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