Nah, it was worth messing with him.

"Well see he'd been dead for a while, and Kate had inherited the bow. And he decided she wasn't worthy. They had a shooting contest and he won. So he kept the bow, even though he wasn't going ot use it. So we went to get it back. She deserved to be Hawkeye. She did good with it."

But yeah, that's not the whole story. So he leans over his drink.

"She'd had a bad day with the whole losing the bow thing, and her boyfriend at the time was sorta being a bit of a dick. So I took her out drinking."