On the Phone
“With all due respect, sir, you know damn well that’s how it is.

“You can’t honestly tell me you didn’t know that would be a conflict of interest. I used to be his lawyer, for God’s sake!

“Listen, I’m all for lending my expertise to help us deal with the strategies Wolfram & Hart throws our way. Hell, I’m glad the FBI has a Mystical Resources department, so we can protect ourselves from some of those strategies …

“What? No … sir, you’re not listening. Wolfram & Hart won’t leave any stone unturned. Calling me out for a conflict of interest is child’s play for them. We’re talking about a corporation who tampers with jurors – I’m talking spells, if not outright wetwork.

“I don’t wanna be taken off the case, either, but the fact is if I don’t hand it off to someone else, this thing’s never gonna see the inside of a federal courtroom. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like the thought of Dylan Coker walking the streets again. It’s only a matter of time before a body comes up with heroin where its blood should be.

“So put Flores on the case. I can sit on the sideline and give advice on how to deal with Wolfram & Hart.

“Yes, but she doesn’t scare me, sir.

“No, we can’t cast a spell to make the judge and grand jury forget the conflict of interest. If we do that, we’re no better than Wolfram & Hart. I understand we live in a world where certain rules have to be … rewritten, but I’d like to think we’re above using their tactics.

“I don’t like it either, sir. But if we want this guy behind bars, I don’t see where we have any other choice.

“I want to stick it to the firm as much as you do – more so, even. But I gotta pick and choose my battles. I can’t just go up to them, guns a-blazin’. I do that, they’ll smack me down and you’ll be short an agent. Hell, for all I know, they might be planning that anyway.

“Trust me, sir. When it comes to them, we gotta be happy with the little victories, and we gotta be patient.

“Flores is plenty capable; this case is going to be in good hands.”