Bars tend to be good covers. Speakeasies, you know? All the things you can't say in public where there might be prying ears, you do it where there's crystal and smoke.

...

I don't know. It's...

[ Frowning just a little bit. ]

It's similar to this. Talking about solutions. Getting an idea of where to head, some kind of lead that might help. Nobody could be sure, but it was better than the alternative, which was to die or kill everyone else.

[ Just as equally unrelated to his own personal plight, nothing that'd give him the things he was looking for, but a potential avenue for survival. ]