When Beethoven first started going deaf, he destroyed every piano they put in front of him, just smashed the keys like his fingers were sledgehammers. Just 'cause you can't hear music don't mean you can't feel it.
If we go into that place, it will destroy all the parts of you that I love. You know, all the... the parts that are gonna make you a great father. And I just... I can't let that happen to you again. You know, I want our child to know you. Not the person that Strand would turn you into.