What else can you call it when someone keeps asking for something someone else won't give? Hawk's many things, and he's hardly a smooth operator, but the idea of ever becoming one of those guys who won't take no for an answer just makes him feel pathetic.

But alright. Mulcahy is offering another carrot in the form of news from home, and his gut sinks lower imagining what it could have been. Radar wouldn't lie to him right? So... what is it?

"Just tell me," he croaks. Whatever compliments Mulcahy thinks he's given are ashes in his mouth. If him just being him was enough, why did Mulcahy leave him alone?