Gately's hospital visitors — "Pat didn’t know about the remorseless…"
Pat didn’t know about the remorseless A.D.A. or the suffocated Nuck: Gately’d tried hard to share openly about the wreckage of his past, but some issues still seemed suicidal to share about.
Context
"Suicidal" in its legal-self-destruction register, not the clinical one — but pointed texture: the Recovery machinery runs on total disclosure, and Gately's honest inventory has a body in it, so the program's survival mechanism and his literal survival point in opposite directions.