Then why can't I tell you to step off about knowin' the shit I don't want to share?

[ he pauses, tenses, sighs. ]

I didn't mean it like that. But your plan's a good one and literally no one would disagree there. So let me follow it. Dirk, I love you, you know that, right? I don't want to cause you and everyone else pain, so just. Let me do the thing that'll cause less. The like. Normal person thing. I'm willing.