[Well, to start, he is very pointedly leaving out the part where Birkin was probably just as crazy, given some of the projects in question...]

It's...good, in some ways, yes. Recalling normal things like that - or, well. As normal as things can be.

I believe there was someone else that I was partial to - someone I knew while I was on the force. I remember being fond of him, out of the group of people that I was in charge of. Playing favorites, if you will.