Does he really get over his love of that bridge?
"It's the system, Lara. People will be different after the Revolution."
I think so. "What have I done?" I believe he fell on the plunger deliberately.
shareNo doubt about it, he realized that these men were sent to destroy the Bridge, that his beloved British Army Corp deemed the Bridge an enemy asset. That he had collaborated with the enemy because of a self-delusion. After seeing his beloved Army humiliated with defeat and capture he went a bit insane, seeing Shears snapped him out of it.
shareI think it was seeing Joyce dead that triggered the switch in Nicholson, not Shears.
Hitler! C'mon, I'll buy you a glass of lemonade.