You have to give something up to get something back, a lot of the time. Clark wonders if that's what Rick is doing, being a police officer and all, and a stranger, and a protégé of Batman. Setting up the opportunity for disclosure by performing something like it ahead of time. Or they're having a nice conversation.

Either way, Clark's gonna do this second thing, so.

"I do," he says. "It feels like its own world, sometimes. And it's nice that Bruce is giving this whole place a second chance."

A beat, and he asks, "Did he tell you about it, the renovations?"