"And you ... like him?" Laura asks slowly, entirely skeptical about this whole thing. It sounds an awful lot to her like Bill is telling Ford stories -- lies that flatter him, and sound entirely logical, to get him to a point where he won't want to take that obsessive revenge against Bill anymore. It sounds like Bill's acting solely out of self-preservation, and if it means he's got to rope an old man into a relationship to do it, so be it. It sounds ... awfully familiar, to Laura. "What ... do you like about him? Romantically."