Questions over compensation for the video have become a long-lingering hurt for Fulton, another round of disappointment. In jail, he hasn't had the will to conjure the comical version of Elmo he crafted five years before while thinking of what he missed growing up without his father, moving in and out of juvenile placement. Rather, he's the man who, after a breakup and time away from his young children, gloomily concedes that the mask hid his pain.