[The fact that Kyle challenged him to do it and was not likely to expect the flowers pretty much guaranteed that Tony would bring him some. He doesn't expect Kyle to do anything with them, of course. It's just a friendly joke. But he has to do it.

And it softens the tone of the more serious reason he called him out there for.]

An offer. And a request, depending on how you want to look at it. We've been trying to come up with ways to protect everyone and watch our backs when things go wrong, but most of the time we're doing it on our own. Maybe with a few people we recognize from home, but there are a plot of people outside of our circles that we should be working with.

So I'm starting here. With you. This will have to stay between us--I don't want to cause any public scares--but I think a few of us should get together. Regularly. And I think we should be talking about what we plan to do when things go bad.