While the film is fascinating, the repartee with Sheska - with both of them adding their own ideas and insights - is moreso. They occasionally go off on tangents, and build off of ideas that aren't, strictly speaking, directly related to the topic of the film - but they always make it back eventually, and even the tangents are enjoyable and compelling. For the span of a couple hours there, he completely forgets his troubles and the dangers of Haruhi, the police force, and the island. He is simply having a really good time with a friend. The past and the future can wait.

He stretches, languid and graceful - almost catlike - when the movie finishes and she gets up. "That would be lovely, Sheska-kun. I've become quite hungry myself." He's absolutely starving - he hadn't eaten a lot, and it had been a long day - though he hadn't realized how hungry he was until the movie was over.