It’s less often a moment opens on a character just after his or her emotional jag, but that’s precisely how Norman Reedus chose to play the scene, which makes all the sense in the world, since Daryl probably wouldn’t have waited precisely until seeing everyone else outside the hospital to let his eyes rain.
Bad news has been revealed, and the recipient is shocked into a sobbing fit, or lovers declare their love for one another and each begins to tear up in an embrace.
So often in the world of acting, the ability to cry has always been lauded as proof of skill, but almost every time crying gets used in visual media, a character is just going into the process.