He hesitates a moment. "We tried some stuff between point A and point B. But the long and short is that he caught me there. So technically a serial killer caught me before I caught a serial killer."

That makes it sound like it wasn't a big deal, and like he doesn't have nightmares about it still. Telling a girl about walking up gasping, feeling like your chest's compressed, isn't going to impress her. "But my friends got the police. And we got the guy before he could kill again."