In the marked silence after, Jihoon struggles to think of another way to pick the conversation up. He has a list of open-ended questions he usually likes to start with, to get the ball rolling again, but he’s got this awful feeling they’re just going to be met with hostile silence. He doesn’t usually subscribe to the Good Will Hunting methodology of waiting it out, but if a prisoner doesn’t want to talk, he won’t make him. Can’t—is probably the more accurate word, because he wasn’t born yesterday, he watches the news, he knows; nobody can make Choi Seungcheol do anything he doesn’t— “Hey Doc, wanna hear a joke?”