That's a loaded question, one he still doesn't have an answer to and Hopper exhales slowly, looking down at his coffee before he shakes his head.
"I don't know," he says. "The longer I'm here, the more I feel like I really am stuck, but getting a new job feels like the final nail in the coffin for me. If I do that, then I'm really doing it all. I'm here instead of home."
Then he smiles a little and looks at Lucy and admits, "I was Chief back home. It's a lot less difficult to rise up the ranks in a small town and I don't think they'll let me take over here. I was a beat cop in New York in the seventies, I'm not sure I want to go back to that."
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"I don't know," he says. "The longer I'm here, the more I feel like I really am stuck, but getting a new job feels like the final nail in the coffin for me. If I do that, then I'm really doing it all. I'm here instead of home."
Then he smiles a little and looks at Lucy and admits, "I was Chief back home. It's a lot less difficult to rise up the ranks in a small town and I don't think they'll let me take over here. I was a beat cop in New York in the seventies, I'm not sure I want to go back to that."