Cash was catching his breath, and Ari Fisk had lowered the flask from his lips. This gave him time, a small amount of time, to try to figure out how to talk Ari Fisk out of doing this. How did he do that? Cash's desire to die had always been passive; he'd wanted it, but he had never quite looked death in the eyes and wanted to make a choice to meet it. On the first February 28th, this man made that choice — but Cash had not been there.

He caught his breath. What he said was: "Don't do it."

Ari Fisk could not kill himself. If there was anything Cash had discerned from the questions that the constables had asked, from the conversations he'd heard — there were people who cared about Ari Fisk. Maybe he did not believe it, maybe he did not feel like he had a reason to live right now — but Cash could not let him do this.