neil volz was bob ney's chief of staff.came to bob -- you know, as he said, veey idealistically, which was interesting to me and important for me to hear. they were rightfully trying o run against the kind of institutionalized corruption in washington. but the relationship of neil and bob was a very interesting one in the film because you can gnaws away at them and their relationship, you know, it's like something out of "lord of the rings" where frodo and sam begin to go at each other's throats because of the corruption of the ring. so did neil and bob. what's really instructive about their relationship too is that in the case of neil, he did the classic washington journey where he comes to congress as a staffer with a congressperson, oh, my god, i really need more money, i need to do beeter with my life, so he crosses to k street where he can make the really big bucks. he starts to work for jack abramoff. then even though he's not supposed to, he starts immediately lobbying his former boss, bob ney. and it's the use -- it