"I'm a hardy enough man to know that bein' nice to Jason won't kill me," Sinclair wasn't about to give Jason the satisfaction of dying, not when there are reasons to care about the living. "He kept you safe an' made you happy, ain't more than me or yer dad can ask for."

Fathers may know best but to have let Swann run off with Jason might've saved their lives and livelihoods. Necessary evils had loved ones too. And with two children, Jason might as well carry Swann's bloodline alive.

"Sooner or later, these imbeciles will have to find a way to run their institutions an' it ain't going to be any of us."