Yep, this is what crossed my mind, too.

I can't see how that would work, though. Can anyone else?

I don't trust him one little bit. He will have some plan in the works, and I am worried that I'm just being manipulated into playing his game.

He was getting increasingly desperate for me to 'make him an offer' - and, then, he struck on this new way of getting my L to formulate one by saying that i had agreed to it in a conversation with him, and that L should draw it up.