Cooper has always been ... resilient. If there's cracks, he won't let me or his mother see it.

[But he knows that his son has been through quite a crucible of his own, and it's only a matter of time before those cracks start to show.]

After what went down in New Orleans, I don't blame him for wanting to take some time away. But Evelyn doesn't know the full story of what happened there, and I don't think he wants her to.