Neal Backman is the only one of Joel Backman's three children who will still take his father's calls. Neal is ashamed of his father, humiliated at the attention and notoriety his father's crimes brought on him. Neal has retired to a small town where he practices law in a small law firm that is far distant from the huge firm his father once ran, and Neal hoped it would cement his own future. Neal is now married and the father of a small child. Neal has no desire to be caught up in his father's drama any longer.