"We already know what's happened to the disappeared. But if you want to waste your time on investigating what we already know to fluff up your own ego, be my guest. We can give you a list of names."

Condescension is his usual mode - Mello's used to being the smartest person in the room, the most prepared, the one with the best ideas. The fact that none of this current crop of the kidnapped has suggested any better ideas is disappointing, but not exactly surprising.

"Public opinion is simply that - opinion," he says to Connor, a little sharper. Where he's from, public opinion is that a global mass murderer is doing a good thing, something with which he definitely does not agree. "Villain is a point of view. Nothing here is as black and white as you seem to think it is."