[But it's tasty deli meat!]

If you have ideas for how to make it right, really right and not just lip service, please tell me how I make up for my best friend's mental degradation and forcing my protégé to kill me?

[There should be bitter sarcasm or anger or something there, but there isn't.]

I can apologize, and Zack would likely accept it, but that wouldn't make it real.