Jessica "Berlin" Rainier and Joshua Nolan in “In My Secret Life”

You're a real happy cowboy, aren't you?

Did you really just call me a happy cowboy?

It's written all over your face, the way you carry yourself. That jokey tough guy shtick. I bet you watched Star Wars a few hundred times when you were a kid.

You know, we've been through a long, bloody war. Some of us have developed this thing called a sense of humor -

Bull shtak.

- to help us stay sane.

You're not trying to paper over your nasty wartime past. We all have that. You're trying to hide the fact that you like where it dumped you out. Driving around in that busted-ass roller with your hot Chewbacca, chupping whores. Shooting people who cause you trouble. Call that hand cannon strapped to your side a blaster, and you've got the complete picture. You're living your fantasy, and it only took ten years of an apocalyptic war and the near destruction of the Earth's surface.

Well, this is all very entertaining, if a little facile given that we've just met.

Admit it, you like the world just the way it is: a playground for a man who'd rather not grow up than face the fact that this doesn't work for most everybody else.