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Alex expects being in D.C. to get easier as the days go by, but it doesn’t. If anything, it gets harder. He still misses Paul desperately. Liam is being surprisingly lovely but he by himself isn’t enough to absorb all the loneliness of the city.
The material they’re shooting doesn’t make things easier. It’s all heavy and intense, and while acting is just work, the mood on-camera follows Alex off of it.
For Zach, everything is falling apart. Alex can relate uncomfortably well to his character’s sense of loss even if the subject is different. More frighteningly, Alex can also relate to Zach’s terrible sense of victory as he lays out to James plans he knows he shouldn’t be so eager to make.
“I’m going to Iran,” Zach says.
James looks horrified. He asks “Why?” with an intensity that co
