At first I could understand Eric's anger towards Ryan. Ryan was the guy who replaced his best friend, who had died just some weeks before Ryan's arrival.
When Ryan first arrived Horatio asked him to show his gun so that he knew whether he's guy could repeat Speed's mistake or not. IMO that's why lot of poeple hated Ryan at first (actually, I was one of them even if I didn't like Speed that much, at the time).
Obviously Ryan entering in a wounded team like that one in that way wasn't the best way to introduce him and to get a real good friendship between Delko and him.
Plus Ryan was very young and sometimes he was cocky e.g. when he stole the gun from Eric's hand just to show H that he was the one who found it.
This kind of behaviour didn't help that much their friendship and we also know that Eric had lots of psichological problems since Speed's death.
So I think that it was pretty normal for Eric not to accept Ryan and I felt like Eric at the time.
During s4 they slowly became more mature and the were able to cope with eachother. Even during the mole thing Eric never suspected Ryan as Ryan never suspected Eric.
I do think that Ryan sees Eric has a friend since "Man Down" when he told the shooter "you shot my friend" and also after the scene at the hospital or while he was waiting for the DNA results. He also tried to help Eric when he was having double vision trouble in "Triple Threat" and obviously Eric got mad, as always
. So yeah Ryan Wolfe wants to be his friend, but, at the same time he knows they will never be friends. Still he goes on helping him.
As for Eric I thought he was slowing going better with Ryan, but gosh things changed and in a bad way.
Honestly, I've never seen Eric hepling Ryan except for the little trip to the ER in "Nailed".
When he had his gambling problems, his eye troubles and stuff like that...Eric was never there for Ryan. It was H, Calleigh and Alexx...always one of these 3 people. Not once Eric.
IMO, this kinda prooves how Eric is still far from being Ryan's friend, even if they hang out as coworkers in a bar or something like this.
Plus the fact he suspected Ryan was responsible for H's murder...well that was pretty serious.
Nobody had the slightest suspect towards Ryan. Nobody but Eric. Why??? Is he really a good friend of Ryan? No, I don't think so and I just can't see them hainging out or going to see a baseball match or stuff like that as buddies.
IDK whether Eric is still thinking of his true friendship with Speed or not, but I just can't see them being friends.
I'd also like to rember that Ryan helped H twice in his career.
Firstly when he helped him in finding the mole and then for his fake death.
Maybe Eric is jelous (well he also showed he was jelous) and that's just a little bit immature from Eric, but we also know that Eric has never been King Mature
I also do agree about the fact that some of their arguments are just too stupid and that they both need some anger management counseling.
