Good guess indeed, and that Pixie was just piling out information for him. The fact that she was annoying her partner may have been a sign of telling the truth; that expression on his face didn't seem the least bit as if he was faking anything.

"So he works to meet the goal of another person?"

Used by another person? Something he could sympathize with, having been used by an organization and those that hired him; those never ended well, but the fact that he was alive could tell someone what happened to those that screwed him over.