This is the most original story I've read in quite awhile, and I'm so glad I decided to read it. I admit I was a bit wary, because, you know, evil criminals, but it's amazing and even a little scarily possible, like there really are versions of them doing this in some little alternate universe somewhere. I keep thinking about Daniel in Absolute Power, and Shep in The Eye, and Rodney in Trinity and how they all have these things in them they keep in check--and how scary they would be if they just gave into every dark impulse.

And now I'm just rambling, but I really really love this. It's going to be stuck in my head for days.

This is one of my favorite lines, but it was hard to pick just one, because there's so many:

Every time, every guard tenses, and Rodney thinks it just might say something, that a room full of the most notorious scientists and criminals in the Milky Way doesn't freak them out half as much as the slightest twist of Sheppard's smile.