You don't get it, I don't want anything. I don't need anything. If you want to repay me, then go out and use your freedom to protect someone else. Pay it forward - make the worlds a little better, instead of a little worse.

[There's a level of maturity and... understanding in his voice with those statements that's unusual in a guy his age. It's a bit surreal.]

I'm not a kid. I'm just someone who wants to help.