Trying to explain that his disdain for the city was a very recent thing would be hard to get into without having to give out more details than he was comfortable with, and so Harvey quickly searched for another response.

"It didn't used to be like that," he said, though that was mainly a lie. Gotham had been corrupt since he was a kid, and it had been growing up in that kind of environment that had led to him wanting to practice law. Not that it had done him much good in the end, but that was how it had gone.

He didn't want the subject to stay on him, but he didn't want Fai thinking that he had any interest in his insane ideas either. It left him without much to say, and so he knew it would be his own fault if he got asked more probing questions.