[...He's not sure. He grunts there and then- and then oddly-] I dunno. I mean- [...] There's a lotta other things you can beat or stab people with. And I think her not having this thing - a familiar item - is making her a little edgey.

[Still, there's no real certainly in his voice as he says any of that. It should go without saying that's why he chickened out of actually doing it]