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[Good morning, Heropa. Greeting you today is a man with a bright smile and an even brighter shirt — aqua, with a tie that seems to match only in theory — and a look in his eye that twinkles with confidence and certainty. Yes, here is a man who is not at all questioning this place and its motives; here is a man who is totally okay with the situation in which he's found himself; here is a man who is a very good, very convincing faker.]

Greetings and salutations, fellow ImPorts! Allow me to introduce myself: Saul Goodman, attorney at law and soon-to-be judge. I want you all to be able to think of me as a resource — as someone whose purpose here is to assist where and when I can, at least as far as legal issues are concerned. For consultation purposes only, though; I won't... uh, really have the time to open my own practice here, unfortunately.

[And that does seem like something that upsets him, but he allows that emotion in for all of two seconds before dismissing it and focusing back on sounding genuine and honest. Which he is, to some degree. It's just... kind of rare, is all. But this is what happens when you don't want to upset your kidnappers: You do what you think you have to.]

Anyway, I'm gonna have to spend some time catching up on what's actually going on in this place, legally and politically speaking. There are other lawyers and legal professional-types around, right? We should chat. Oh, and for all you daytime TV-watchers —

[THERE THEY ARE. THE FINGERGUNS.]

Get used to seeing this face.

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I very much doubt that given that I've heard of several murders since I arrived. One, I believe, involved someone taking the severed hands of his victims.

[He'll just let you enjoy that rather charming mental image.]

But I would argue that's less about being villainous and more about insanity. People here are dangerous, it's hard to predict what they'll do. But to label them villains is a little more tricky than that.

[That's not a mental image Saul wanted, but he did this to himself. Masking the disgust in his voice, he says:] I guess. I come from a world where villains are either real life terrorists or quirky fictional characters, so...

[Far too general a statement, Saul thinks. He's heard of a few villains in his time who don't fit so neatly into either of those categories.

Then again, given recent events, this isn't really a conversation he really wants to have. But here they are.]

I always found the term villain somewhat too broad. I'm not even sure how you'd define one, given how many we'd called villainous consider themselves righteous or heroic even. Morality can be a blurred and tricky subject.

[Often villains were either deluded men or those that people just couldn't understand. Sometimes the crueller methods were the most effective, even if no one really wanted to do them.]

Boy, you're tellin' me.

[Saul knows morality can be — and often is — a blurred and tricky subject, which he thinks is a mild way of putting it.

He hums, sounding thoughtful.]

What do you do here?

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