Eventually, he said, he was lured back to Albania, drawn by the challenge of building a sector from scratch and the promise of his mother's home cooking.
He was lured back by what he calls in the film "the siren song" of the frontline.
He was lured back to television, he said, by the chance to work with Mr. Crane, a creator, producer and writer of "Friends," and Mr. Klarik, who also has extensive comedy writing experience, including "The Class" and "Mad About You".
He gallops off into exile after his daring feat, but years later, when he is old and sick, he is lured back to Iraq, betrayed, and murdered.
After an absence of a decade, he is lured back to Copenhagen, where he receives an invitation to visit the Zone and is given strict instructions about how to enter it in an "Alice and Wonderland -like scenario.
He was lured back toward its end, he said, becoming the "fall guy" for its true operators.
But he was lured back for the second series so he could be written out in style.
But his children became teenagers and the appeal of dabbling in start-ups faded, and he was lured back to Microsoft in 2007, when, he says, the company was finally becoming "focused and serious about search".
The next, he is lured back into the airport, ostensibly to collect the BlackBerry he left in the hotel room, and his life is falling apart.
