Lorne smiles at them both, and Maureen pulls back to look Jack over quickly. "You should have said you were inviting a guest, Evan."

"It was...a surprise visit," Lorne says. Coming out is one thing, explaining something like Milliways is on a whole other scale of complicated. "Jack just came down from Missouri."

The key to lying to his mother, Lorne has learned, is to include a grain of truth.