"If you wanna tell, I'll hear it," he answers.

It doesn't sound good. The way the story starts, it's not so different from some crime scenes Hopper has attended and sometimes he thinks a lot of the people here in Darrow forget who he's been before. A soldier in Vietnam, where he did some awful fucking things. A homicide detective in New York during a bad time for that city.

A father who watched his daughter die in front of him.

What Alex has to say might be awful, but it's hard to scar him these days.