"I liked it when they stayed behind TV screens and comic book panels, gotta say. It's been nothing but trouble ever since. Nothing good's come of it." There are a few things he likes about Stacy, but nothing he wouldn't easily give back to go back to when he was twelve and life was almost mind-numbingly simple. And from the sounds of it, Rory doesn't share his opinion.

"Don't worry, I won't come running to you when my guts start bleeding out," he says before stuffing another whole cookie in his mouth, gagging on the huge bite but swallowing anyway. "No, you're right, I really don't. Why's this Conner kid at such risk? I didn't have a chance to go over his file yet. I wasn't the one who interviewed him, obviously."