Somehow, it helps to hear that she's trying, even though Sean knows he never should have doubted that. With as worked up and agitated as he is, it's not a lot, but it helps. "I never talk about her," he says, and while he means to make some point about why that is, whether it's for his sake or Meredith's sake or what and how this is a pretty extraordinary situation, he never gets to it, because the instant the words are out of his mouth, he's stuck on them, fixated. "I never talk about her," and suddenly, all that stuff about waiting for a time and a place of his choosing is no longer an option. "Oh, fuck." Here come the waterworks.