Well, you've got a hell of a pokerface. That'd put anyone at disadvantage in the courtroom.

[ Friendly way of saying he has zero idea how to read you, exactly. Still... the things he said has him remembering a lot of thoroughly unpleasant business.

His brother, in jail, for one thing. He really doesn't want to think about it. ]

... Besides, if you do this job long enough, you end up with a few spooks in your closet no matter what. Hard to avoid it.