We've seen what happens when a session misses their chance, and this isn't it.

Giving up is the only way to absolutely guarantee we lose. If hope is all we have, then we shouldn't squander it.

[There's a pang of something like mourning when he says it. He'd said something similar to Beckett, a long time ago, when the vampire had been struggling with giving up, himself.

He hadn't had a chance to say anything last time, and he'd just...slipped away, into the beast. Thinking too hard about it, it almost makes him feel like he should think of giving up too. But he's not gone, is he?

Neither are they.]

If we lose hope, we lose the ability to help them, and one another, and consequently ourselves.