Boyce: I think he’s scared to death. I think that every single person he sees, he’s wondering if that’s the person that’s coming for him. He’s probably worried that there is a large group of people in Washington, D.C., trying to come up with some way of getting back at him, to get control of him, to lock him up for the rest of his life.

I don’t know if he has an arrangement with the Chinese government. If he doesn’t, I would be worried that the Chinese may deport him to the United States to gain some concession in return. I’d be terrified of that, if I were him. Who would trust the Chinese government? He is utterly vulnerable and knows that there are a lot of people who really want to hurt him now. If I were him, I would at this point probably be having second thoughts. Asking myself “What did I do? What have I brought down upon my head? Did I really do this?”

The fact is, he can never come back home.

He’s totally separated from everything he has ever known, from his family. He is always going to be a fugitive, until they get him. And eventually, they will. He will never see his family again unless they go to him. And if they do go to him, he’ll no longer be in hiding. The only way that he can truly hide is to abandon his whole past, his entire life.

When he realizes that, he’s going to be racked with depression. I would imagine that his stress levels are at a point where they could actually make him physically sick.