"Isn't that why you're here?" he asks. "To be sad away from your girl?"

Hopper is quiet then, knowing he's not the right person for any of this, but Steve chose him for some reason, so he's going to damn well try. He had fucked up his marriage, his kid, even though Diane and Sara never knew the extent of it, and now in Darrow, he's been single pretty much the whole time. Single and in love with the same woman he's loved pretty much since high school.

He's not one to emulate when it comes to relationships.

"Did you ask her why?" he asks. "Knowing there might not be an answer? She might just not want 'em, but maybe there's a reason."