Ned hears that pride in Charlie's voice, takes note of it. It's funny, but he'd never really given all that much thought to what it really must be like as a profession, what he and Meyer do. But now that he does turn his mind to it, what with all the cut-throat competition and violence, needing to stay out of the way of the police, it probably forges some fairly strong bonds between people. That would explain, in part, why Meyer and Charlie are as close as they seem to be, and why Charlie speaks of this 'AR' character with so much pride.

When Charlie says he fixed the world series Ned goes still a moment, a furrow forming between his brows. "Actually you know I think... maybe I've heard of him, too. At least, that sounds familiar."

He interprets Charlie's new rather melancholy bent to merely missing his boss, so he asks, "How does one even go about doing something like that? Fixing a spots game, I mean. Did he just... pay the players?"