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Gary Cole, an actor I've always enjoyed watching, becomes an active force when a former protester and progressive thinker, with lots of baggage, comes to speak. It turns out that he lost his son as a result of a protest, years previously. I'm not sure of the most salient point here. The guy's celebrity gets him hated by those who oppose his agenda or think him a sellout for no longer being the guy he was. Oh, and Charlie is all giddy.

"Hightower, Knox, Newberry, Beiderman. Each of their signatures is a self- swallowing set, a name that shorthand's a body of thought, a life's work. The question isn't who you are. The question is: who did I turn out to be? Who am I to you? Are faded chalk marks and scratches on the floor the only evidence that I was here, or did some scribbled note, some fragment of a proof invert your perception of the world… Even confirm it, cementing what you knew in your heart to be true, with the balance of left column to right? What footprints have I left behind? Do they endure, or have the ocean of discovery wash them away already? How many lives have I touched?

Have I touched yours?"

• Charles Eppes