Chiefttp … fair call. I had wondered, further upthread, whether a swift departure/takeoff by SW had become an ingrained expectation in the controller’s mind … however inappropriate it clearly was in this situation. I agree the r/t does tend to indicate that he’d realised he’d got it horribly wrong, but IMO a far better solution (rather than “are you rolling?”) would have been to send the Fedex around at that moment (2 miles? or a bit less) than hope SW would save the situation he had created. At least more vertical separation would have been achieved.