"Yeah," Eddie says. "I kinda think it would've been the same for me."

Just because he'd been on the outskirts of it all didn't mean he hadn't still been well aware of the path his life was taking. If he'd kept up with the dealing, which he probably would have, he'd likely have ended up getting himself arrested, spending some time in prison, just like his old man, and that's the last person Eddie ever wanted to be like.

At Chrissy's question, he's quiet for a moment, considering. He does that a lot around her, he finds. Really pays attention to her words, to how she's saying them. He wants to give her real answers.

"Sometimes," he says. "It's like... the world had a plan for me, no matter what I wanted to do, right? So being here, that plan suddenly turns on its head... yeah, it's a lot."