“She asks him to bear witness to people in the last moment of their lives and that something happens when you look closely at something. You begin to understand it. And I think that understanding is the first steps towards love. And I think when he has that pivotal transition, he thinks to himself, if I can feel this about these people after such a short space of time, what do I feel about a man who I’ve spent 600 years with? And so he returns to him and in the episode you’ll find out.”
— Tom Sturridge on episode 6 of The Sandman and Dream’s relationship with Hob Gadling