Fitz shrinks back -- and because habit is habit, he's noting the reaction as an interesting data point even as he does it. The green guy doesn't like to hear anyone insulting Angel the Do-gooder Vampire? Well, well --

"I," he swallows, "I was gonna call you with the tip. I was. Like, this weekend."

And if he'd done it sooner, he'd have been able to charge for the information that he's now going to have to give away for nothing.

"He asked if the big cat had any enemies, right? And you know his stories, everybody knows his stories, he probably tells them to paperboys and traffic cops. I gave Wells the Cliffs Notes version, okay? And that's it, I swear."