Ric went with Elijah to the wall and put his hand on the back of Elijah's neck. "Now, sit down and give me the flashlight, okay?" The okay was a verbal tic, it came out once in a while, but his voice was staying calm. Honestly, if Elijah'd been human, he'd have just been doing the moving but that was obviously not possible now.

So he was doing the best he could with what he had. He didn't get all the reasons Elijah was feeling what he was feeling, but he did understand he'd been lied to and just found out Klaus had killed their mother. That was enough, really, to explain it.