He doesn't pull away. Well, just enough to speak.

"That...that would be the bad. Alex...wandered off while I was talking to my sister and...he met someone who looks like me. Not...not another version of me, but...a man...named Simon...who had a knife and...threatened him. And...he called me over and...accidentally..."

He looks up to Charlie.

"Have...have I told you about Him?"

The capitalization is very very easy to hear.