[ ok really chuck should know better than to walk around with his cellphone out in a crowd but (and this is a very important but!) he's in a space station. with aliens. with hologram tool things. he's pretty sure that if anyone tried to steal his pitifully low-tech phone, said thief would just throw it back at chuck and demand compensation for wasting that effort on such a worthless item.

unfortunately he didn't count on the contents of his phone catching unwanted attention, said contents being a picture of his not!girlfriend which. he had to admit, at least the space thugs currently threatening to cave his skull in if he didn't explain where this woman can be found has taste. but (another very important but!) ] She's not here. Not in the passed away sense or ghostly sense but in the not actually located in this galaxy and possibly this era sense. And even if she were, I'm not going to tell you - and she's a woman who is perfectly capable of taking of herself -

[ he's just getting himself into more trouble here so when he hears Akin's greeting which was probably for someone else, he takes it as an out ] Oh look, someone I know and who'll be a witness to what you might try to do is here! Hate to be rude but I- [ and he turns to Akin ] I'll be right there man! [ his mouth is saying 'yeah we're good' but his eyes are saying 'back me up' ]