Tessio: Tom, can you get me off the hook, for old times sakes?
Tom: Sorry, can’t do it Sally.
Hahaha...that is the second time in as many days I have had that exact quote posted to my attention in the forum!
It IS appropriate to a degree. The difference is, Tom might have WANTED to find a way to let Tessio off the hook, but Xi is the one who PUT that guy on the hook!
One less Communist is never a bad thing.