Maybe the two have become too easily conflated with one another in past exchanges. He is a liar. He is a liar, and no matter how much he'll try to help, that will never change. It just makes him more liable to hurt someone when that betrayal inevitably comes.

"So which is better?" And which is less likely to incur Jay's fatal paranoia? His intent had always been clear - he'd thought it was. "Or should you always just...shoot for both?"

Should he ask?

Maybe there's no point.