If I were involved in the high stakes game he is, I'd be a bit more emotional, a bit more eager to convey the fact that I'm a human being who makes decisions that have consequences outside the purvey of my own foresight.

But Lamo continuously seems like an emotionless machine. He gives speeches about damning a kid to life in prison and the moral dilemma of discretion when faced with illegal but possibly necessary civil disobedience with all the passion and articulation of a Hall of Presidents automaton.

It's hard for me to get the impression that his actions are anything but calculated.