Alex stood there feeling a bit sad at Richter's response. The old man was crazy, dangerous, and evil, but he was still his grandfather. He couldn't understand the pain or the sorrow that this crazy grandfather had experienced to become like this, but Alex was sure that it should've been a devastating experience for him to be this broken. At first, Alex felt angry at his grandfather, he was full of hatred towards the old man for killing those that he loved, but later as he kept on talking to the old man. As he saw the expressions in the old man's face as he fought, that even the old man himself never noticed Alex came to realize the truth. Everything was a facade, a hoax, nothing about the old man was the truth. He was a man who kept on lying to himself.