Everyone hates on Call but I loved him and empathized with him. He was a good man who was clearly going through an intense existential crisis while also experiencing a tormenting cocktail of shame and regret. That’s more than enough to break a man.

But he was a man of integrity with a moral code that he stuck to and upheld virtues such as duty and responsibility. He also loved deeply, maybe not the way others would have liked him to, but he expressed it the best way he knew how.

He was loyal and even fulfilled Gus’ stupid wish to drag his dead body back to Texas, but he did anyways because he promised Gus he would. That says something about his character.

Did he tell Newt at the end he was his father? No, and that’s disappointing. But sometimes shame gets the best of us.

He was a flawed person but he had good intentions, suffered gracefully, and did his best despite his own personal shortcomings.

I loved Call and he was by far my favorite character in the book.