He did. We hit it off pretty quickly actually. He's sort of home-confined and I think he needed a project. And he's better than Simpson at engineering ways to shoot people, he's done it for years before going 'clean'. Given what he told me I do think he'll try his best. Also the wizard man said he wouldn't kill exactly but he might trap him in a pocket dimension for a while so there's that. All things considered I feel like we have better chances this time than we did then.
Another idea is, what if you broke his wind pipe? He can only use his power via voice, right? What if we took that away?