Casual chitchat.

He has to use all three, and in a specific order. He realized that was an absolutely retarded question, that it's the sort of question he'd ask a buddy that had been in prison, and that he has some considerable social disability on top of a hangover, (it's 9:30 am). End with he's sorry he said that, and he'd understand why if she'd like to stop talking, but he'd like to just move past it, because he thinks they had good chemistry before he set everything on fire. Or he can shoot himself twice in the stomach and say it was a dumb way to try and connect with her, as he just got shot and is in the hospital, which I think is the better course for the gene pool's sake.