Billions? Huh. Puts me and my- my friends to shame. Not that it's a competition, because it isn't.

[ He goes silent for a few seconds as they continue walking along, but eventually, he speaks up: ]

I'll admit, I kind of let my ego get a little big, but the point is, someone was threatening the American people, and he put one of my friends in the hospital, so he had to be stopped. Of course, that didn't go as planned, and it turns out something much bigger was going on, but I didn't know that at the time.