"He's not gonna end up with a freak like your dad and come on, Axel has to be blowing those stories out of proportion. Who adopts a kid to get them to deal drugs or pull jobs, that's just -- okay, not that weird." Especially since he realised as he said it that it's exactly what Leonard's dad got him to do. And, to an extent, Mick's dad. He always had to pay the bookies for that coward. He didn't want his kid to have to deal with that. He pulled a pacifier from the trolley and undid it, putting it in his mouth first to make sure there were no gross chemicals on it before slipping it into the babies mouth. What? He wanted to check. Just in case. The kid seemed pretty happy with it. "I can't have him. We both know that."