Jackal came up initially to clean the gutters-- there were some days when he spread out that government salary by hiring someone else who needed a break, but there were others when the time wasn't there and he wasn't too good for the labor. Some things really never would change, and Bunta finding him up here was one of them.

The question made him sigh.

"I'm still trying to figure out what I make of everything he's done since he..."

And Jackal isn't sure he wants to say 'got better,' so he settles on, "Since he got back to work."