[ Watching you as you do all that, and fishing out his cigarettes and tossing you a spare, unopened pack. ]

I'm flying back stateside in two weeks. I'll need to know if I can rely on you to watch over everything here while I'm gone.

[ 'Watch' of course, being his loose term for keeping him posted on anything anyone needed, and being the point-person for everyone else while he was out.

You've already got a good rep with his people, and none of that is for show. ]