'Cos I wanted to ask you something, and I wanted to be sure that you weren't busy. That's politeness.

[It's a strained attempt at humour, which means it's not actually humourous at all. Merlin, but he sounds an idiot. Right.]

I wanted to ask you to come over. On Jack's behalf. Which sounds weird, I know, but he didn't put me up to it, or anything, I was just-- He's perfectly capable of asking on his own.