[You know, knowing what he does about Buck, this is just kind of reinforcing his opinions. Of course a man who'd murder two people and get away with it would also just... just let an entire town destroy his son. At first he thought maybe Buck had been trying to get back to him. Fiddleford could sympathize with that. But he's starting to think that wasn't the case, because clearly Buck didn't care all that much about his son's wellbeing.]
That shouldn't've been how it was. There's no world in which that's okay. You understand? All that -- all that's way worse than makin' a genuine mistake. If it'd been me, if you'd've been my son--
[He would have died for Tate. There was a week where he thought he was going to, and the thought didn't scare him because if it came down to it what other choice would there have been?]
No matter what they told you, no matter what they said, you didn't do anythin' wrong and you sure as heck don't deserve to be laughingstock for it. [Knowing his future, he may also have some strong feelings about being the town laughingstock.] And your dad best hope I never meet up with him down here because I've got some words I'd like to say to him about what it means to be a parent.
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That shouldn't've been how it was. There's no world in which that's okay. You understand? All that -- all that's way worse than makin' a genuine mistake. If it'd been me, if you'd've been my son--
[He would have died for Tate. There was a week where he thought he was going to, and the thought didn't scare him because if it came down to it what other choice would there have been?]
No matter what they told you, no matter what they said, you didn't do anythin' wrong and you sure as heck don't deserve to be laughingstock for it. [Knowing his future, he may also have some strong feelings about being the town laughingstock.] And your dad best hope I never meet up with him down here because I've got some words I'd like to say to him about what it means to be a parent.