Ajay. I think - forgive me - I think if you knew the whole story, you'd understand that you might be overselling it a touch. Your mother had already been hurt in the worst way anyone could have hurt her. Whatever it is you did - your spot of trouble with the law, I presume - could never have compared.

[ Is it too much to admit that he knows about the shooting? Certainly too much to confess that he'd funded the lawyer. No matter. He keeps his arms latched around Ajay, determined now that he won't let go until Ajay moves away. ]

There was a lot in her life that could never be made right. But you. Oh, you were her guiding star. Her home.