..and he didn't really need a bathroom at all!!
"Maybe it was ...code..."
I think you are on to something. I applied my top-secret Rovian operative cryptographic ring to this and came up with this translation:
"I think"= "See that ugly mook in the front row?"
"I need"= "He is a friend of Adam Clymer"
"a bathroom break"= "find out where he lives and have the black choppers pick him tonight."