"Most people are pretty set in their ways," he observes, neither an agreement or a critique. One chair is temporarily ceded to Gotham, and Tom looks for all the world like he'd be at home playing a perfectly respectable (and thus completely untrustworthy) anonymous board member of some faceless company in a far off, significantly less fanciful world.

Sort of.

"I'm sure you're aware of the general lack of what amounts to social services in the city." What an opening. If that wouldn't terrify most lawyers, god knows what would.