Kovacs just eyes him steadily before he rolls his eyes and shakes his head. "I'd say it a pleasure, Matthew, but it's not. You don't want to be here and I sure as fucking shit don't want to be here. But, I've been doing pretty well on my own so far."

No, you haven't, Kovacs. You'd been doing terribly and, yeah, he kind of hasn't been on his own really. Not if you count Miller and Ricki and a few others. But, Kovacs isn't thinking about that and he's definitely not going to admit that to someone he doesn't know.

"You planning on making friends with everyone, then?"