"Wait, so you're saying this job has required complicatedly networked computers, a seismometer, and a microwave beam satellite dish strapped to the back of a cellphone. I can't have done it. I don't have the money."
But its equally clear that he could have had a backer, or a nest egg in the Grand Caymans fattening in the tides of galactic commerce. This bit of rage dump, transmissive as a quick punch to the curve of the neck.