His first loyalty is to profit, but he's fair, and he wants to do well by the people of his city -- village, really. They may be living in the ruins of one, but a population in the low thousands does not a city make.

I, um, should probably also warn you that open network posts are monitored by the dome Authorities. You can filter communications to a single person, but if we have wiretapping in our world, I imagine the Authorities have the same -- they have hovercraft, for god's sake.

[And, by an expression caught halfway between disbelief and resignation, it looks like she just knows Tony's going to get in on that somehow.]