NPCs · first: MEN E1
Mark Bition
Mark Bition, the District Attorney, has a beautiful face and coiffed hair under his fedora, and arrives in a long coat with another figure MEN E1·01:03:19. He thanks The Fix for his work MEN E1·01:04:50. The mayor's deputy chief of staff, Mr. Lance, is with him MEN E1·01:06:07.
Mark Bition is the District Attorney of Mentopolis, who thanks The Fix in MEN_01 and later hands him a small file MEN E1·01:04:50 MEN E1·01:07:19. In MEN_02 The Fix names Mr. Bition as the source of his contract on Conrad MEN E2·00:29:30. In MEN_03 his face appears at the edge of the memory in the book with Don Avaricci, and in person he greets The Fix with "Ah! Fix, pleasure." MEN E3·00:23:21 MEN E3·01:43:33. In MEN_04 his face is slack and his pupils have gone blinding white, with a small white vertical slit shining over his heart, and he watches the attack on The Fix dispassionately MEN E4·00:43:47. He leans out of the window to look down at The Fix MEN E4·00:52:02.
In MEN_05 he asks the judge for an emergency grant of powers on behalf of City Hall and the mayor's office MEN E5·01:06:58. Anastasia finds a campaign check in his briefcase, and he reads it aloud: "To the reelection campaign for one M. Bition, signed by one Donald Avaricci." MEN E5·01:17:38 MEN E5·01:16:58. He shouts "A. Tension, you'll never get away with this. Not in this city!" MEN E5·01:23:43, and Anastasia answers "I just did." as he is marched off MEN E5·01:23:43 MEN E5·01:23:47 MEN E5·01:23:50.
By episode
MEN E1: The Big Guy
MEN E2: The Scattered Mind
MEN E3: F For Freezer
MEN E4: Grappling With Death
MEN E5: Emergency Powers
- M. (Mark) Bition (card No. 203, he/him, District Attorney: "Beautiful face", "Perfectly coiffed hair", "Dashingly handsome figure") — in court: "Your honor, we come here today on behalf of City Hall and the mayor's office requesting an emergency grant of powers." — 01:06:58; reads the check aloud — 01:17:38; arrested by the bailiff: "A. Tension, you'll never get away with this. Not in this city!" — 01:23:43