"That so?" Oh Matt, you were trying to pep talk the wrong person here. You'd have better luck with almost anyone else on the station. It was admirable that you wanted to try but it wasn't going to work.

"I don't know, been working pretty fucking well for me for most of my life," Kovacs says, ignoring that few years span where he had let people in and had felt pretty fucking good about things.

"Is this where you give me a lot of advice, newbie?" Kovacs wonders.