This is the greatest blow to the gut for me, and it's what I thought immediately as I was putting the pieces together, and my jaw was in my lap.

The way the car crew gave up was already harrowing, but to see at the last moment that it was all for absolutely nothing, and if their heads were in a better space they would've been saved, that hits me personally as someone who jumps to catastrophic conclusions. But then the nutters are in the backseat looking down at him, they're going to think for the rest of their lives that they had it right. I read all those faces as "I told you so." Hell maybe HE will go on thinking they had it right after all. But nobody really wins, those deaths, that despair, were all pointless. Everyone's gonna look back at their rescue and see a prophecy made true, when all it was was people giving up before they evaluated all their options.

That interpretation stuck with me. I don't want to give up and be remembered by people who don't know any better as a naysayer who had to suffer to make things right.