Tom. 100 words. Episode 3x02. Not my characters.
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He shouldn't have come back. He should have followed Christine's example and resigned. He shouldn't have expected things to go back to they way they were.
Everything is different now. Ever since the Joyce affair he feels the sense of distrust from his colleagues. They look at him differently – but he sees them differently too. He sees that this life is no longer for him, that it has not been for him for a long time. He is tired of the lies and the secrecy. Tired of always pretending to be other people.
Christine was right: this is destroying him.