When he has a moment and there doesn't seem to be anyone monopolizing the nurse, Valiant steps in. He's heard she's just a regular person, and that she's new, so he figures the best strategy is to just seem like he knows what he's doing and is someone really sensible whom she should listen to.

"Hi," he says in his talking-to-waiters voice, chipper and polite, impersonal, and quick in a way that simultaneously suggests he respects the value of her time and gives her less time to think about the reasonableness of anything he says. "I'm here for a shot of depo and another of testosterone."