"Being cast as Claude Rains," Sloane says, amused and impressed. "Now that's a way to feed a man's vanity."

It also makes Scott Bogart and Emma Ingrid Bergman. He'll think about the appropriateness later; they'd definitely look both dashing in black and white. Right now, he has, apparantly, a job. And the chance at a new life.

"I'm sure," he says, raising his own glass. "To rounding up the usual suspects, then. And the future."