Ignacio Ocampo.

Two years earlier a medical-supply conglomerate had tried to bury Ignacio in a predatory contract dispute that would have cost him his practice and his license, and I had represented him for nothing and taken their counsel apart in civil court.

He had told me, more than once, that he owed me a debt he could never repay.

I was calling it in.

He picked up on the second ring.