i hadn't made that connection between doyle and monty
i'll marinate on it

he went to jail. spike said it. the film says it

another point i hadn't considered. that would make it even more interesting. monty imagining all the things he wished his father would say.

that's why that final monologue strikes me and others who have absent fathers. it's all the things we wish our fathers would say to us. it's a lifetime of love wrapped into a 10-minute masterpiece of screenwriting.