Ryan seems prideful, it's been my experience that prideful people have a hardtime asking for help until it's too late. Lucky for Ryan SuperH notice before that even happened.
I see this trait in all of them,it's not just a Ryan thing.
Yeah, but I think with Ryan, it has always been pretty obvious. He never asked anyone for help in the first place, not with the nail thing and the vision problems resulting from it, not with his gambling problems, not now... I don't know why but I have the slight feeling he has had sort of a hard life before CSI, and that something there might have make him decide for himself that he has to take care of his problems alone... But maybe that's just the fanfiction writer in me...
Anyways, can I just say I loved him in this episode. Now finally they show just how strong he is...