And Walter had made a decision very early on that whatever it cost him personally, those boys were not going back into the system.
Period.
That was not a negotiable position.
That was the load-bearing wall of everything he did.
But here is the thing about a secret, it changes you.
Not all at once, not dramatically, not in any way that makes for a good scene in a movie.
It changes you slowly, incrementally, in the way that a stone in your shoe changes the way you walk.
You