[Oliver]
You seem a decent fellow, so I won't sigh or eyeroll, and just get straight to it: I don't think that suggesting bribery as an option, joke or not, is the best thing to do. I appreciate that you don't want to see Barton go to prison - I didn't want to see either of you go to prison, and still don't - but you're only making it harder to find legal help.
Unless you want the shady, disreputable sort? In that case, continue blithely on.
I'm glad you're all right, by the by. Or as 'all right' as a man can be, after an arrow to the ass.