You're an annoying bastard is what you are

[there is a pause in responding, in which Jack has a breather and goes out to brood on a rooftop for a little while, before returning with a rare apology]

Look. I'm sorry. I messed up. It was just a phone call, I was hoping that I could talk to whoever was on the other side of the line, get some information out of them. I didn't expect things to work out the way they did.

((strikes = deleted))