[don't be nice to him!!! it's confusing and fucks with his hot badboy who is actually a Good Guy mojo- So he ignores the compliment.]

I'll do it.

[Rex says that with a fiery, resounding sort of determination.]

No one's touching the little ones as long as I've got something to say about it. And, huh, as we both know? I've got a hell of a lot to say.

[Oh, but look! More actual empathy, even if the mention of hurting kids has made him extra grumpy-]

It's messed up, what those kinds of places do to everybody.

I mean, who wouldn't go crazy? It's nice of you to give whoever that was the benefit of the doubt, though.

Shit's fucked.