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 The Archduke, pouting like a child whose mischief has been interrupted, did not offer comment.

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The stinger on the entire episode, painting Archduke like the babysittee he's been this whole time. Maybe this entire scene was a parody of Adventures in Babysitting that I didn't recognize because it's been way too long since I've seen the movie. Or maybe now I'm just making connections between various words that I've used in sentences previous because I don't have much to say about any of this! Or maybe I've just been traumatized by knowing and hanging out with a guy just like the Archduke! A guy who, every time you turned around to see what he was up to, you'd wind up muttering, "For fuck's sake." The kind of friend you've never actually punched but fucking hell it was a close call at times! And the worst part is that all those feelings of fun with that guy tinged with feelings of annoyance and irritation and anger are now stained with grief as well since he killed himself about a year ago! Fucking hell, Larry. You were a wild ride of a human being.

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 "Um, Your Royal Highness?" Lew murmured, "if we could just have a word—"

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It's Lew's job to protect the Archduke so I get why he's trying to calm the situation. But if this were a friend of mine (and he wouldn't be a friend of mine after this, I assure you), I would just sit back and chalk this beating up to "He deserved it." When people say they have somebody's back no matter what, it usually means they value loyalty over justice. Fuck that. Loyalty is like faith: its worth is only in how people can use it to control other people.