[reaction]
He's not where he's supposed to be, and that heightens the guilt somehow when he realizes where he is, in this memory. He's lived through something like this before, so while being pulled inside someone else's lived moments is uncomfortable and comes at an inconvenient time - he's in line for coffee - it's not a total and complete shock.
He lives inside the body of someone with confidence on the stage, and as he does it is Sue observing it, living that moment after the applause where the world cheers for him. The disappointment sinking into his chest is more Adrian's thing, but Sue lives that too, wrinkles his nose somewhere in the present where coffee-shop strangers are trying to wake him up.
When he comes back to consciousness, someone is dialing 911. He almost whips the phone from her hands. "No, fine." He stumbles to his feet, and makes placating noises. "Sorry, like - narcolepsy, sorry -" and he stumbles out the door into late-day sunshine.
He slaps his pockets, finds no cigarettes, and curses. Daddy is always such a disappointment in the memories of others, but hot student journos take the edge off, anyway.