Mac, Leonard Brooks and others in “Where There's Smoke...”

Mac

You were expecting Jimmy to save you?

He was just so big. He was like an adult. He looked like one of the guys in the comic books, like some kind of superhero.

Jo

But he wasn't a superhero. He beat you, too, didn't he, Leonard? Afraid that if he didn't, he'd suffer the same fate.

When I think about it, though, Mother was smaller, yet it always hurt more coming from her.