Maybe he lost the respect of the people around him before he died. Something Jim said at the meeting. [John closes his eyes and tries to pull up the exact words.] He'd just turned up pretending to be James Davidson. I said... I said I didn't want him, I knew him, he wasn't suitable. He called me paranoid and delusional right in front of General Kurtam. I called him on it and they started talking about how I hadn't been informed about something. He must've got hold of my medical records, but there's nothing about delusions in those. I'm paranoid, yes, but I am not delusional. And I don't have recognition problems... Or memory problems. Not like what they were insinuating.

[He knows Sherlock is on his side, but the anxiety about that interview has been clawing at him as much as anything else. He just wants someone else to confirm that he's not crazy.]