[He isn't running so much as trying to prevent himself from saying or doing something worse than what he's already said. He's surprised, almost, by the insult. Not because Jackson's insulting him because that's never a surprise. He'd be surprised if Jackson ever wasn't insulting. There's something so normal about it, so familiar, that it's actually comfortable.

A short, humorless chuckle escapes him.]

You realize of course, the fact that our greatly varying views on Scott alone are enough reason for me to not be insulted by anything you have to say that regards me as worse than him, right?