Someone should. As if - what? He deserves it? As if he's done anything to earn it? What's he done in his life besides leave others damaged in his wake, worse off for having known him at all?

The immediacy with which she says it has more to do with her than it does him. He knows that without thinking very hard about it.

"Better to start with something doable," he says. Hopefully light enough to be construed as a joke.