[How often is age truly on Freddy's mind? Sometimes it's the old man's on insecurities that bring it to the foreground. Or the simple things of being raised in very separate decades.]

Don't you have to be unwilling for it to be kidnapping? I don't think a guy like that would let you go so easy. I mean, maybe he's a bullshitter.

[No maybes. Mr. White had them in there as though he was an old hand.]