Jerk. [The exasperation is all fond. He shakes his head and smiles, but it's weak, and still pained.] I know... a lot of things about you that you might not feel comfortable with me knowing: you and I have only just met and you don't trust me like he does. If [significant pause] you want me to back off, I'll back off.

[Another significant pause, and this time he speaks with conviction.] You shouldn't feel like you're being compared.

[He's seen what that did to Dick and Zatanna.]