Conn leaned on the bar. "Before we get to the advice part, can we just be clear that I'm not about to tell you to do something that's going to be me stabbing my own self in the back as is regarding the woman in question?"
Hey, just because the guy had seemed to go away without a fight didn't mean he wasn't still interested in getting Kara back. Conn would've been, and might not have been above doing something underhanded to get her attention, either.