“I’m with him — I mean, not like that.”
Have been replaying this part. Just look at Connor's face when Hank asks him what to do with the android. He's fucking smirking!
Also, I have a lot of thoughts about that scene.
This line may sound throwaway at first, but it speaks volumes. To think that I have never looked at this scene and phrase from such a perspective!
No one accused Hank of being there “like that” with Connor. No one asked. No one implied. He brought it up on his own. And that’s the point.
The phrase is a classic Freudian slip 🤣— the kind people make when their brain jumps ahead to a possibility they don’t want voiced. It’s overcompensation, a sudden urge to distance oneself from something that hadn’t even been suggested.
That makes it less of a denial… and more of an unconscious admission.
I mean... his face and reaction
I think, Hank has considered the possibility that someone could interpret his dynamic with Connor as something more.
His phrasing is awkward, rushed, and overly defensive — not angry, not disgusted, but uncomfortable. That’s not the reaction of someone who’s secure and unaffected. It implies internal conflict, not external pressure.
And it matters, because... well. At this point in the story, Hank has grown closer to Connor — they’ve shared tension, respect, banter, and moments of concern. This small, spontaneous comment shows that he’s aware of how it might look. And more importantly — it shows that he cares.
You don’t clarify something unless it’s already been on your mind.
It’s not proof of attraction. But it’s proof of thought. And in storytelling, that’s where feelings start. If Hank didn’t see Connor that way, the line would never have happened. He wouldn’t have said it. He wouldn’t have needed to.
Also, why reacting like that at all? It's just Traci. The club staff isn’t paying attention to their dynamic. Connor certainly says nothing. Yet Hank volunteers this clarification — immediately and awkwardly.
He’s not reacting to others. He’s reacting to himself.
And let’s not forget — Traci is not a deviant. She’s not judging. She’s not even listening that way.
So Hank probably isn’t clarifying to her. He’s not worried about how she interprets things. He’s speaking into a void — and that makes the line more revealing, not less.
He’s trying to neutralize a thought before it settles. And he says it to a character who won’t even process it.
Which means this isn’t a social defense. It’s a burst of personal discomfort.
This isn’t a joke. It’s not comic relief. It’s a man who’s suddenly self-aware of how close he stands to someone — emotionally or physically — and doesn’t know what to do with that feeling.
He panics. He jokes. He fumbles.
And the camera keeps rolling.
The devs could’ve cut that line. They didn’t. Which means they wanted it there. They saw what it implied — and they let it stay.
Once again, this line doesn’t prove romantic intent. But it absolutely proves perceived closeness, internal tension, and subconscious discomfort about what it might look like — or what it might already feel like.
People don’t deny what they’ve never considered.
Hank says, “not like that,” because at some level — for a second — he did imagine what “like that” might look like🤣
And that’s why the moment matters. Not because it confirms anything explicitly, but because it shows that something unspoken has started to surface.
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