Michael just hates a problem he can't solve and being an alien from a planet he doesn't know about, it leads to a lot of frustrated days. This is just another thing for the pile, but fuck if he doesn't like it.

"So what I'm hearing is that maybe I should be more cautious about being around Alex when I'm here," he quips, trying to turn some of this into a joke, because that's just what he does, all the while his brain is puzzling the problem and trying to make something of it.