"He is too," she says quietly. "Guess it's gonna take a little more than dying to settle him down. I don't know, maybe I shouldn't have told him right away. I know it's a lot. But... I couldn't not talk to him, and if I don't tell him, it's like... I don't want to lie to him, y'know?"

He's family, even if he doesn't know it. None of the Barneses have much of that to spare.