If you were in my position, would you want Tommy and me to watch you go crazy and die?

[ He's said that to him before, he remembers it so clearly. That's right, he'd only just sent them away a few days ago, and now he's got to do it all over again. But this time he's not so sure he's got enough of himself left to keep it together. ]

I'm not gonna let that happen. I still have a choice, I'm still me enough to decide what I bloody want for myself. And I'm choosing to cut you shanks out before I get worse.