[Worick orders a pile of pancakes and a black coffee. Also predictable, but it offers a sense of familiarity in this strange new world they've found themselves in.]

Of course you are. You just needed to go through an adjustment period after being under Barry's thumb for so long.

[He takes a sip of coffee. When he speaks again it's carefully worded.]

I guess I could have pushed you more to be independent. That's what getting you the job at Loretta's joint was supposed to be. But it's better this way. Ergastulum isn't a place to make a life. [It's a cage to die within.] This place is a nice change of pace.