The next version will be that if they told him, he was too upset to remember it.
My answer would be if you were too upset to function at a high level, why were you trotting around the world on important missions?
“The next version will be that if they told him, he was too upset to remember it.”
Sounds about right. He must have “grief blocked” any other bad news during that sad, terrible time of yet more tragedy in his tragedy filled life.
All he knew about Hunter was how Hunter was doing so very much to help Beau’s wife through the terrible time.