He's not expecting David to change today because he said some pretty words. But he is expecting to start laying a voice in David's head that will remind him to question the narrative he has so solidly established.

"Always such high demands of me." He refills both their glasses with half-pours. David said he could cut him off, but there is no real benefit to him being drunk. The emotions are largely already out, and the last thing he wants is something else to happen and drunk David to spiral or go try rushing into it.