User blog comment:Thomasfan502/Season 8 Discussion Blog/@comment-31892545-20181015192345/@comment-31892545-20181015225653

I wonder if he used his year alone to reform and improve himself as a person (like he tried to do in S4 for an episode and a half). Not necessarily ground to reestablish anything between them, but I doubt he’d go back to normalcy after a year gone from his squad without saying a word or proving himself.