"By my definition, most people can be bought for the right price, an' frankly? You don't pay most of 'em enough that the right price'd be that hard t'find or that painful t'pay for one of your rivals." And possibly more to the point, while Damien might have a stray hair up his ass about Eliot in particular, he's not exactly a ray of sunshine in anyone else's life. He's not, at this point in time, the kind of man who inspires intense loyalty in his underlings.