I don't know if I really believe that anymore. I'm -- I'm sorry. But it feels more like we're tryin' to do good in spite of him than alongside him.

I want to try and make things work but I can't ignore that anymore.

[If he does it's just going to happen again. They're just going to get hurt again. Elias has no reason to listen to them. He has plenty of reasons to want to placate them, sure, but that's not precisely the same thing.]