[He ran away for four days after that one to panic and self-medicate with alcohol and freak out and absorb the memory and its various consequences. That counts, right?]

It's a possibility. But what makes them think we're going to be willing to fight for them after all of this? I mean, I don't know about you, but I'm not feeling too charitable toward Retrospec right now. If they want us to protect them, they're going about it the wrong way.