[ There's an audible shudder. ]

Oh, it won't be anything like that.

We'll experience a bright future together. I'll even let you in on the first reveal of the tech.

It shouldn't take me...more than a month to pull something together. I'm sure I have schematics somewhere...

[ Look, he might just devise things for the sole purpose of pulling them out when convenient. Who doesn't have a new way of harnessing nuclear fuel in their back pocket? ]