DeaconI have fought in front of a crowd every Friday for two years and I am still second. You know what second is worth? It is worth a dormitory with a radiator and no blinds.

TamsinYou want me to countersign a report about you.

DeaconI want to be filed doing something that cannot be argued with. In the yard. With everybody there. And I want it to be with you, because a report about me and a nobody is worth nothing.

He is not being cruel. He has simply worked out what he is worth to a clerk and he is offering it.