"I was also trying to tell the man something important."

Finally he takes Connor's hand, shares more thoroughly what happened, how Hank really wanted the guy to understand that the situation was in no way under his control.

Then he shares something he hasn't before. That he's fucking scared. He deals with it however he can, but he knows he's surrounded by people used to being powerful. But now they're all about as powerful as children in a Victorian orphanage, being set against an impossibly wealthy and absentee headmaster, beset by angry ruler wielding enforcement nuns.

Hank's always been normal This is easy for him to grasp. But others not taking it seriously, not reacting, disregarding him feels like shit, too.

Not to mention that arguing these points feels a little like how arguing that global warming exists was. Yeah, it's been proven. Even if volcanos exist, we can't do anything about them. This is what we can do something about.

He apologizes for the bullshit metaphors in his thoughts. He's not good at technical terms. It's what he's got. Just that he's worried that going home really might not be possible, even if he's struggling to make that option happen anyway.