[How exactly does she handle this? That's the question.]
[Because while Henry hasn't ever quite told her the whole story, there is one little thing she has over him when it comes to an understanding of Walter's mission. The cult kid experience is something you just don't quite get unless you've lived it, and she had, even if it had just been for seven sad years before Alessa got locked away in a basement.]
[She could try to reason. But she knows that won't work. You don't undo decades of brainwashing in one conversation with a stranger.]
[And lord knows in this place, just finding him and putting him down like Old Yeller won't solve any problems.]
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[Because while Henry hasn't ever quite told her the whole story, there is one little thing she has over him when it comes to an understanding of Walter's mission. The cult kid experience is something you just don't quite get unless you've lived it, and she had, even if it had just been for seven sad years before Alessa got locked away in a basement.]
[She could try to reason. But she knows that won't work. You don't undo decades of brainwashing in one conversation with a stranger.]
[And lord knows in this place, just finding him and putting him down like Old Yeller won't solve any problems.]
You could say that.