[OK, Leon doesn't really like being laughed at, but this is his shot at being PATIENT. And UNDERSTANDING. And SENSITIVE. So let him just...take a deep breath.]

OK, an' you didn't want to be a fisherman. The Gauntlet thing was the only way you could make it.

[He's got those dots connected. Now to tie that back with Walter's desire to know and understand everything. Somehow.

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Y'know, can't I just, like, ask you why ya need to figure out everythin'? That's not a bad question to ask, right...?