"Steve, I say this with affection: the level of therapy watching the water can provide you would be like someone blowing on a forest fire to put it out."
It's barely even exaggeration, and it's not like he thinks it doesn't, in some way, help, but Steve's got kind of a twisted relationship with even the inanimate objects in his life. Just look at the house, how it hasn't changed, aside from being cleaned up, from when Danny first saw it during his sweep of the crime scene years ago. Look at the way he attacks the water every morning, like he's still got to beat some personal best. Look at how he keeps trying to will that monster of a Marquis into compliance, even though it burns through gas and oil like it's single-handedly trying to raise the global temperature by ten degrees.
And Steve doesn't really go in for that kind of thing. Sure. He relaxes, from time to time. He even relaxes on the beach, or in the water. It might be that he finds the sound and sight of the waves therapeutic. It's possible. Danny is willing to admit to the possibility.
He just doesn't think it's likely.
"So what you're saying is there's nothing rattling around that barbed-wire trap you call a brain? Nothing bugging you? You're just sitting here enjoying the sunset and watching the water, because this is a totally normal Sunday night and that's what people do in Hawaii on Sunday nights, is that it?"
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It's barely even exaggeration, and it's not like he thinks it doesn't, in some way, help, but Steve's got kind of a twisted relationship with even the inanimate objects in his life. Just look at the house, how it hasn't changed, aside from being cleaned up, from when Danny first saw it during his sweep of the crime scene years ago. Look at the way he attacks the water every morning, like he's still got to beat some personal best. Look at how he keeps trying to will that monster of a Marquis into compliance, even though it burns through gas and oil like it's single-handedly trying to raise the global temperature by ten degrees.
And Steve doesn't really go in for that kind of thing. Sure. He relaxes, from time to time. He even relaxes on the beach, or in the water. It might be that he finds the sound and sight of the waves therapeutic. It's possible. Danny is willing to admit to the possibility.
He just doesn't think it's likely.
"So what you're saying is there's nothing rattling around that barbed-wire trap you call a brain? Nothing bugging you? You're just sitting here enjoying the sunset and watching the water, because this is a totally normal Sunday night and that's what people do in Hawaii on Sunday nights, is that it?"