Yeah, Montreal wasn't always on his mind, or anything.
All the "ran out of time" nonsense is bs. That's how plain old Jim respectfully ended the question, one time, and somehow it's defined the entire (non) signing.
If TT wanted to be here, he would be here right now, it would have happened. Period, the end of conversation. Anything else is just dramatic nonsense!
TT said he wanted to be here, because it was the polite thing to say. They ALL say this when they move on, it just a cliché at this point in time. Benning said time ran out because it was the polite way of not throwing TT under the bus. He even hurt himself by saying it.