I'm not completely ure but I think it is to explain why Pip and Joe have a close relationship.
The feelings that the main character’s problem was that I think I would have been able to get my own attention from my life. The chase in the ending was the best way to represent a good game.
Well, he went from being a happy man with a family to a man who just cared about making money and working and the only guy he treated like family, died. So, therefore he ran the company by him self and he was never home. He was always doing things for work.