"Some transactions need contracts, sure, but do you use a contract every time you make a purchase? You have to be flexible and judge the needs of the situation on the situation. You can lose a lot never seeing past the piles of contracts on your desk. But I disagree that they had no alternatives. There are always choices, even if they're not always good ones. And kidnapping a Pervect? Bad choice. Kidnapping one with connections to M.Y.T.H. Inc? Worse choice. Let me fill you in on a little something. Company I work for? Takes jobs like this all the time. As contract work. As in those contracts you're so enamored with. Yes, the president might have chosen to charge them more if she found out they were desperate, but she might just as soon have chosen to charge them less. I will admit the main factor would probably swing down to which of us was in the room with her while she considered the job. But either way? Had they tried to HIRE good help there would have been no need to kidnap anyone. That they CHOSE to kidnap us rather than offering us fair wages and a choice tells me that they might well be hiding something and it is fully possible they aren't the ones we want to ally ourselves with at all. Of course, it is always possible that they're just stupid."

"Either way, my faith in the local talent pool, or their morals, is not particularly high. When someone bargains with me in good faith, I generally return the favor, but when someone sets me up to hang? I generally return the favor as well."