[This is coming together more and more, though he's trying not to make any judgements either way until he has the whole story. So he just nods, listening, and he has a lot of questions but this isn't the time to ask them. Instead, he just offers--]

Those are understandable feelings to have. As for Tommy, he probably knew what you'd do, but hoped he'd have enough of a head start to be done with everything by the time you caught up to him.

[He's guessing, with very little information about Tommy, but the way she's talking about him this seems like the likely explanation.]