He taught me a lot about the game of bridge. We were never on a first name basis…it just wouldn’t have been right. Barely a month after my arrival...in the unit, his helicopter was blown out of the sky during a combat assault that wasn’t supposed to be hot, everyone on board died. At the last minute, he had scratched my name from that mission. When I asked why, since I was just dumb enough to want to, ‘see some action’ he bluntly told me that I didn’t have enough experience and wouldn’t be an. ’ and went back to his bedroom. He came back out about a minute later with a box of Trojan Magnums and a bag of weed, and said, ‘okay guys, pick one.’ My wife looked at me, not knowing how to respond. She looked at the box of weed, and then at the box of condoms, noticing that it said ‘XL’ on it. She said ‘oh my god!’ and left out a giggle. She looked at me, trying to look as cute as possible, and said, ‘…I don’t really want to smoke weed…..’ I understand that she was very tempted. Rick was. And waited. She'd done all he could for Sarah and I before I was goaled. Being gay too, she abhorred the fact that sexuality had been a major factor in the severity of my sentence. She had became an invaluable ally. She convinced a new and more sympathetic barrister, a woman this time, that I'd been convicted of terrorism on the basis of virtually non-existent circumstantial evidence, press hysteria and sexual prejudice. Some of the material had slipped beyond the Official Secrets Act, but she. Each charge is good for one hundred releases.”I glanced at the rifle and he picked up one of the small ovals. He slipped one into the rifle and turned to start walking. He went through a doorway and lifted the rifle to point at a target a little way down the tunnel and to the side. He pressed a small stud on the left side and a holographic site appeared above the barrel. When he fired there was not much noise but the target appeared to just shatter.He nodded and walked back into the warehouse.