"I'm shocked. I've been kind of a pushy asshole. You know how it was, breaking you in." A joke. If anyone got broken in, it was Clint. But he's pretty sure it worked both ways between them. New handler just has to learn that sometimes being hands off is the best possible course of action.

And in a more literal sense, hands off is not what Phil is up to. He takes the casual brushing touches the way he's taken most of the other ones: without complaint, without comment, not reciprocated. He does make a point to actually get out of the way while Phil does his thing. Pasta goes with pasta sauce. Obviously. He can cook up pasta without incident, given you just let it cook and you can go do other things while it softens up.

"I haven't had much chance to get into trouble yet."