[He rubs at his face and takes a moment to respond.]

Then ask next time. What it seemed to me is that you knew I wasn't gonna be happy with it, so you tried to cut corners from the start. I'm not a tight ass, Clarke. [Not ... usually. Hiro is a special case. The courts are a special case. But normally, he's a mocking, arrogant man with a lot of passion and anger. A lot of those things, really.] I don't want to screw him over, but I want him to actually think instead of looking for loop holes. Being clever is good. But it's like he doesn't know how to fucking use his cunning the right way.