[Maybe, just a little bit - this sudden burst of sweetness is coming from a place of evasion. It's easier for him to step outside himself again to comfort someone else than it is to confront some of the deeper truths of the matter.

But even he doesn't fully realize that now, as he loosens up, by degrees, laughing with Phil.]

I think, with all we have been going through, a lack of pants isn't the worst thing you could do. You...you saw what I was wearing, when I got here.

[That frilly, stolen coat is still hanging in his closet, actually.]

...But this is what I mean. I like...this you. The other one didn't feel quite...real, to me.