Tuna melt au where Shane starts freaking out and so to distract him Ilya is like "I got the marble imported from Turkey, custom cut by a local contractor here in Boston" and Shane wants to have a freak out but he's always wondered about the quality of marble from Turkey, he got his counters from Italy and China but he saw options from Turkey and Brazil and wondered. He really should go, but now he's wondering if Ilya will answer his other questions like who was the architect that built this house and where did ilya find that tile that's in his guest bathroom. Basically Ilya using Shane's real estate fetish to keep him from running out during the tuna meltdown.
I think that genuinely would have worked in the sense that the utter insanity of the segue would shock Shane out of his panic attack.
Like he’s just cum, his brain is soup, the beast of heteronormativity is breathing down his neck, and he says,
‘I can’t. I can’t do this.’
and Ilya just replies
‘The light fixtures in the kitchen were imported from a designer in Spain.’
….
….
‘What?’
and now he’s so confused he can’t possibly leave.
Ilya Rozanov voice NEVER LET EM KNOW YOUR NEXT MOVE…
