Everyone's being very polite, which only gives Clark a twinge of regret for the fact his question isn't going to be. The impulse to get his fingers in where he shouldn't, but equally, he knows he'd regret not.

"Is that why you're not?"

The glasses do have a virtue of magnifying earnest appeals through the eyeballs. It has literally never worked on a single Gothamite cop that Clark has ever talked to, but, you know. "Talking."