Instead, Richard provided a respectably emotional backstory about what he went through before joining The Kingdom – “There were always babies crying.”
– where he was part of a makeshift community that fell apart after a fight and a fire, which led to Richard watching both his wife and his daughter die.
It’s this sequence that sends Morgan off into temporary madness, as he starts having hallucinations while screaming out in the middle of the street.
Had he stopped with that, Richard might have soothed Morgan’s worries.