Paul’s client is the wife of some politician or other. From her account, they do a lot of traveling, and it is not fair to the parrot because he does not get enough attention. Mostly he is dealing with their Mexican legal immigrant servant, which is not challenging for the intellect of a Pontius Pilate. The fact that she highlighted that their servant was Mexican and not intellectual but legal made me very suspicious.

I did some research on their last name and found out that her husband was a lawyer involved in sponsoring Prop 8 (forbidding gay marriage in CA), and her name came up in association with the Tea Party movement. I of course passed the info on to Paul. It did not discourage him, but had the opposite effect. “Children are not responsible for the sins of their fathers,” he proclaimed. I had to agree with him, because I didn’t want come across as prejudiced.

I hope Paul’s lady client had the sense that Paul is gay, but maybe not, because then she would question whether Paul would be a good person to take care of Pontius Pilate. What if her conservatively-raised parrot became aware of his homosexuality? Well, I don’t even want to imagine the effect it might have on her personal life as an honest member of the Tea Party movement. She makes sure that her servant is a legal immigrant, but her parrot lives with a gay massage therapist, not to mention the sexually obsessed dog, a bitchy fish, and a single woman who is not planning to get married and produce children? After analyzing the whole situation, I decided to take in Pontius Pilate and try to turn him into a liberal, bisexual “revolutionary.” I have always believed in second chances.