Other way around, I'll be honest. Hostile takeover, corporate merger; my company essentially swallowed up his. I come from a time when he's a much older man - he'd been forced to hang up the cowl over two decades ago.

Not, of course, that I knew anything about that. Until after I got here.

[It doesn't sting as much anymore, talking about all this. He notes this privately with a dull surprise.]