The floodgates broke.

"Hal and Dave, huh? We -- we should go to Jupiter together."

He just started to cry his ugly-sounding cry, even if he was mostly silent this time. Sure, manipulate him, do whatever you want. What else mattered at this point? His daughter was alone, but she was successful and had people to look out for her. Hal was just... a master of the one night stand and unable to bond with another person again, now.