Did he actually choose to confide in someone who knows how it is? No way, no that's...well, all right, he concedes that it's totally possible. They've only been talking about Alex here, and Angel's dropped more than a few hints that there's kind of a lot to his whole story.

"Yeah, but - how do I do that when the only person I trust I ended up nearly killing?" He got lucky that Evelyn was there at all, and that's the bottom line. If she hadn't stopped him, he'd've set the whole mansion alight. "Unless, like - I dunno, are you up to the task?"