John Rogers on this scene in The Long Way Down Job:
For Eliot, he's the anchor. This is a man who's, well, not a peace but at equilibrium with being damned. A man who knows his swing, as my grandfather would say. And with equilibrium comes the willingness to help others out in their time of—disequilibrium.
Parker has to deal with the fact that with vulnerability, with emotions, with relationships, come a lot of good things…and pain and doubt, for the first time.
Beth nailed Parker's torment at wanting to do the right thing, her frustration at how she wants to—well, she said it all in the scene, and much more than what was there in dialogue. It's one of the finest pieces of acting I've seen in twenty years as a writer. But Eliot's scene afterwards, explaining that it was okay to be Parker at the same time she was trying to be a better Parker—that's not a speech anyone else would have given.
(Very Important Parker scenes 2/∞)