It's kinda crazy how how Tom is so obviously in love with McQ (and that isn't even as a shipping thing, it's like beyond that) but I really don't think McQ realises the extent of that even now. Like Tom is constantly gazing at him adoringly and praising him and reacting to everything he says like it's the most profound/funny/awesome thing he's ever heard, and McQ will just be next to him having a perpetual existential crisis looking off into the distance wondering when he'll be abandoned.
My outsider POV is it seems McQās a cycle of fully aware and basking in Tomās love by Tomās side > out of a job for more than a day and questioning it all > job comes through > repeat. It is crazy that he was apparently thinking heād be fired all throughout Valkyrie production and that Tom would never chose him as a director for Reacher. More recently I think his ennui is because after every Mission, like as soon as the credits rolled at the premiere, they'd turn to each other and say "we can do better", but now Mission is over and he's just got nowhere to put that drive on top of his usual emo nature. IDK I am heavily biased towards them both being aware they're in love but also knowing they can never truly be together because I find that very romantic
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