[Nope, sorry, Michael's not gonna let it go that easily.]

There's no problem with it. I had a crazy existential crisis one time. Total breakdown! It might have been a little dramatic, in retrospect...but anyway, Eleanor helped me through it. That was before we were even friends.

[He was maybe two days off of being their torturer, so. There's really no excuse at all for him not trying to help out someone else.]

Would it be less upsetting if it weren't? We still would've experienced it.