You have it the highway of info in front of you so don't take the backroads. You "get it", you just chose not to. And it didn't gain you any ground at all. Asking if you were ever going to see him again LOST you ground. Hearing him say yes doesn't mean a thing. In the first place - of course you will -but it might be only in court. In the second place - he might tell you that because that is what you want to hear. And in the third place - he could be lying. They lie all the time. So - what good thing came out of that? False hope. That is all.
I am blunt. It is not always appreciated. But I tell it like it is.