"How's watching a film going to make you feel you're alive?" he asks with a quick laugh. "Could do that easily enough before, couldn't you? The backrub... well, I'll give you one if you return the favour."

He's joking, really. For the most part. It's not as though he needs any bribing to put his hands on Kieren though he also wouldn't turn down a backrub of his own if he can get one.