[The Shadow could not care less if Terry got it right. If Terry wants to keep guessing he can totally go for it, though. No one has to understand the two of them but each other.]

Despite claims, oh my god. [Literally no one made any claims that he jerks off to this, so what's the point of bringing that up? Joker shakes his head, because Terry didn't see what he was getting at.]

Terry... at any given moment, you're ten centimeters away from calling a Shadow for — what — the third time? Your mind can't take too much more of this. You don't want a couple of people with both morals enough to see what you're doing is wrong, and a mean streak enough to come down on you if you fuck it up.

Given the chance to take out the one who would take you down... you'd do that, wouldn't you?