Wash still remembers the first time he'd met Daryl, or the first time he'd seen him, rather, carted in on a stretcher to the barracks, apparently knocked out, from what Daryl had told him later. He evidently was struggling there, one way or another.

"I knew I had friends here -- and I wouldn't have lasted that long either," he answers honestly, turning the rabbit on the fire. It was a little less obvious and he didn't have any major altercations with the Cetagandans before the breakout, but it was still true. "Hated everything about them. Made my skin crawl."