Emotionally, he pulls back a bit; he doesn't want to start laying all his problems on a teenager; he needs to seem natural. Not easy when he's stressed, but he's managed it before, and with people who know a lot more about looking for weaknesses than Nita.

"No, just the usual problems with the people that are here. I think we've all just been in too close a proximity for too long, without any break from each other," he says, careful to keep his tone light.