He is initially portrayed as a responsible father with two teenage boys .
It quickly emerges that he is having an affair with the young wife of his partner , Ted , a confused young man with unarticulated doubts about his role as a trooper .
He is initially portrayed as a responsible father with two teenage boys , but it quickly emerges that he is having an affair with the young wife of his partner , Ted , a confused young man with unarticulated doubts about his role as a trooper .