 He later left the seminary guilty over the orthodox but ultimately deadly advice he gave a gay friend about coping with his homosexuality.This was detailed in the third episode of the second series ("Life Born of Fire"), unlike Lewis, Hathaway's guilt at sharing the homophobic attitudes of some of his fellow trainees is revealed when he discovers that a suicide he is investigating is a former friend, Will McEwan, who broke off his friendship with him when Hathaway urged him to reject his homosexuality and that he would be punished by God for it.Hathaway acknowledges that he was blinded by religion and did not realize how he hurt Will.