And Greg doesn’t screw it up. I know I’ve said a lot of stuff about him, pretty much all of it negative, but I’ll say this for him: He answers his e-mail right away, and he knows what to do with hard evidence. He loads those files up like he’s sliding a bullet into a gun, says Aaron is willing to testify to all of it, and kills the case dead. He even asks us if we want to countersue.

“We just want to be left alone,” says Mom.

“Well, I can guarantee that,” he says. “And you raise that fence out back another foot and put the muzzle on if you take him downtown, at least for now, and we won’t have to have this conversation again.”

And what kind of fool would say no to a deal like that?