Miss the old Hank from previous seasons of Breaking Bad? So far in the show’s fourth season we’ve seen him in a less-than-stellar state of mind, but the actor who plays him says the negativity won’t last for long.

Dean Norris told TV Guide:

“In real life, you would be bitter and you might treat your wife badly. But you’ll see soon enough that he feels bad about it,” Norris says. “But he just can’t help it. He’s not unaware that he’s being a d—, but he’s also in a place where he’s like, ‘F— you, I’ve just been shot. Somebody else has to take some pain too.'”

But Hank won’t in bed all season. Sunday’s episode provides Hank with some fresh intel that will inspire him to speed along his recovery and renew his chase of Heisenberg. “Ultimately, you can’t keep him down,” Norris says. “We all need to have a purpose in life, and he realizes that at some point. And now, he’s got a personal stake in it. Some guy shot him, and he wants to find out who it is ,.. He gets back into the juice, and that’s what saves him ultimately. It saves him mentally, and it saves his marriage.”

We can’t imagine when/how he’s going to eventually break the Heisenberg case, but we imagine it’s going to be one heck of a climatic moment on the show.