"Time is precious. We have so very little of it on this earth and I prefer not to waste it. I heard from my green friends about your other job here, and now you about mine, too. It's much simpler this way. We can speak freely."

Belloq shifted on his bar stool so he could move a little closer to Niko, speak to him over the noise of the pub.

"Driving is all you have to do. Drive, and look the other way now and then when you're not driving. No one gets hurt and you get five hundred emeralds. If I get caught later..." He shrugged phlegmatically. "...you could just say that you were busy taking a piss behind a tree and saw nothing. I wouldn't rat you out." And his Orion benefactors have promised to pay any fines or bail fees he might incur.