[Is five years just the average lifespan? Or was it just chance? People have been here for longer than that, haven't they? Alice has. But then - Alice is pretty unique in a lot of ways. Maybe she's not the best metric for this sort of thing.]

...Alice.

[Is he asking her questions to pry? Is he doing what Jay has? Is he truly and honestly no better than that?]

[Or does he just pardon himself with the excuse that he's never going to be better than that?]

Do you know if...were the other residents ever...like you, do you think? People with lives, until Wonderland took them away?