[s9e5]: Leave Your Emotions At The Cabin Door

Behind them, in the galley, the lead flight attendant, Sarah, was doing the same. A passenger in 4B was hysterical, screaming about a mechanical sound he thought he’d heard. Sarah didn't comfort him with a hug or a soft word. She stood over him, her expression unreadable, and gave him the only thing that would save him: a set of precise, icy instructions.

For twenty minutes, the aircraft was a metal tube of absolute, practiced coldness. No one cried because no one had the permission to. They were all holding their breath, suspended in a vacuum where emotion had been surgically removed. [S9E5] Leave Your Emotions at the Cabin Door

Elias reached over and switched off the master battery. The cockpit went dark. Behind them, in the galley, the lead flight

Should this story lean more into the of the crew, or She stood over him, her expression unreadable, and

Elias didn't move. He sat in the dark, staring at the cabin door. He had told them to leave their emotions there, but he knew the truth: once the flight is over, you have to open that door and pick them all back up again. And they always felt twice as heavy as when you left them.