There has to be some fundamental flaw to your reasoning! I don't know what your relationship with your father was, but I will protect him and my family, no matter what!

[In his head he's going over everything Johnny has said, trying to find some kind of missed connection, some redemption for the man he idolized as a child. Johnny speaks of him as though he was a heathen, and there's a flash of dark determination in his eyes, like in any other situation he would be trading blows over such an assertation, but--

...wait.

Something's off about this. He needs to test the waters.]

...I will not allow you to condemn a dead man.