"I'm not dismissing it," he says, (dismissively) in that brisk way of his where he has examined a thing, noted its dimensions, and is curtly choosing to set it aside.

"I'm telling you that I know him and that I see a way forward for us with him in that chair. That he is more pliable in it than he is out of it. Why throw that away? Just to make the Gallows more comfortable?"