"I have an hour at most back home," Obadiah says. "That leaves me time for one phone call. I don't think wasting it on a heart-to-heart would be very productive."

He finishes his drink, takes Tony's glass, goes back to the liquor cabinet for refills.

"I miss your father," he says. "I put that off for years longer than I should have, looking for another way. Fact of life, Tony: there isn't always another way."