"Kid, I'm tempted almost every day," Hopper answers, which is true. Some days are worse than others, but there are more days than not where he looks too long at a bar or a liquor store, days when he thinks about how damn good a double whiskey would taste after a long, hard interrogation.

"You're gonna be tempted again," he says. "But you didn't do it. That's the thing that matters most."

He pauses, then asks, "You still got that tin?"