when boromir died for merry and pippin and then pippin saves faramir's life. when pippin says i offer you my service in payment for this debt. when he offers it to denethor but really it's to gondor and to boromir and to the man that denethor once was. when boromir saving pippin's life directly means that pippin saves faramir's life and literally...to boromir, that would've been enough, to have his brother live. for gondor that is enough, to have their captain returned to them.
the pipeline from “all that bloodshed crimson clover, uh huh, the bombs were close and my hand was the one you reach for all throughout the great war” to “threw out our cloaks and our daggers because it’s morning now, it’s brighter now”