[Trip will happily ignore you Chris as he rages at your cousin.]

Well, didja ever think that if ya would talk ta me when I was sober, I couldn't told ya then? I am not the one avoiding you. [His accent was conspicuously absent to stress that last statement.] And if I licked ya, I musta had good reason.

Will it put me outta ma misery? [Whether he means his headache or Mal, he won't say and just takes a small sip.]