"I-- I don't know," he says, staring off into space for a moment. He certainly knows what it's like to hear it from someone else, though it hadn't been delivered with sympathy. His brother had been throwing his involvement in the deaths of Jack's friends in Jack's face at the time.

"How has he been, lately?" Jack asks. That falling apart is something he has experience with, too. Kim would probably be a better person to sympathize with Beckett in that regard, but then he doubts that Kim would want to talk about him to anyone.