"It's, um, all really simple. Really." Gus eyes the door with longing. If he made a dash for it, he could possibly escape. But that would mean leaving Shawn in the lion's den, by himself.

While normally, Gus would ditch Shawn like he was a last mintue blind date... he has the terrifiying image of Henry hunting him down with a shot gun, yelling about how Gus has refused to make an honorable man out of his son...

Gus's eyes stray to the knives that are scarier in this new light. "Ah, look, maybe it's not the conventional kind of thing that you've always hoped for, for Shawn. But I think if you really stop to think about it, this is a good thing. I mean, as a parent you probably want someone who cares and is going to be there. If I'm good for anything at all, it's that stuff, right?"

Then because that sounds way too weird. "Plus this way he'll get benifits."