The man who isn't really Tom cracks a smile at that - half of one, anyway - and it's different from the other expressions he's made so far; it's telling, just a little, about the strange other person behind whomever he's pretending to be here in Alan's office. Someone a little less polite, maybe.

"There's a minimal amount of social services," he reiterates, as an introduction, "and there are no services, social or otherwise, for people who have been victimized by the state itself." The pause there might be for effect, or maybe just because he's still masking what would otherwise be a faint and depressing New Jersey accent. "It's something I'd like to adjust."