"I'll see. You know, he's just waiting to be proven right with how I'm nothing but a puppet-master. And since I am nothing but a puppet-master, I know I have to play things right." He grinned, looking at his phone once more before shrugging and getting to his feet. "Thanks for your help, Jon. I'll owe you after all this."

He always made good on any favours he owed. Simply better for business. "What I really want is to give Gene Hunt a bit of a headache after all this. I blame him. Sam wouldn't have been in this position if he wasn't... Well. All that DCI Hunt is."