"I don't hear that often." He's sixty-three, something that usually surprises people when they find out. "Gray's picture did age. That was the point of the story."

His opinion is not lowering, because it doesn't have much further down to go. This is probably ageist of him, or something. "I don't doubt that. I find that mass kidnappers tend to have ill-intent toward their victims." Like stories of sending trains full of beaten-down people to some place they could be free, only to pull the rug out from under them once they arrived at their destination. "I imagine most of what it tells us is designed to keep us docile until it's too late. How do you propose to save these lives?"

This oughtta be good.