[ Ah. Hardison sobers right up for that much. That whole incident's been pretty fresh to mind for him since he wound up running head-first into it.

Definitely lends some explanation to the hugging. ]

Right. Uh. [ Phew. ] Sorry, man. You know, if it was up to me, we'd just have some time we did something cool and not terrible floating around. Our team's got a lot of cool stunts on the record.

[ Which is not so much all that he wants to say, which is something more along the lines of I hope you're not holding any of that against him, so he goes on: ]

Didn't have any other real options, on that one.