Layton is a grumpy and serious lawyer, who is also shown to be cunning and intelligent as he uses facts about nature against Barry in court, from reading books about the secret life of bees to watching bee documentaries to get all the information he needed. Then when Barry uses the smoking gun to demonstrate the cruel way humans smoke the bees to take their honey, the Judge found in favor of the bees and Barry won the case.Īt the end when Layton lost, Layton told Barry that him taking honey from everyone will have consequences, as it will upset the balance of nature, and was proven right when the flowers died and the vegetables stopped growing and the bees became lazy and lost their will and purpose to work, jeopardizing nature. Layton was later seen again in court with a neck brace and was in a walker, but it was for show to make Barry look bad. Adam, furious at Layton's insults towards his species, stung him on the butt, getting the reaction Layton wanted since he wanted everyone to remember why they hated bees, because they sting people and someone with a serious allergy to bees can die. since most of the bee couples are cousins or very distant cousins. However, Layton got an idea and started to use facts about bees to turn the people against Barry, he asked Barry about his relationship to Vanessa to make him look like an immoral deviant in front of the humans and bees, and brought up how the queen gave birth to the hive and how his parents aren't actually his biological parents, and his final insult was when he stated bees practice incest. In court, he tells the judge and jury that a long time ago, Layton's grandmother was 'a simple woman born on a farm and believed that it was Man's divine right to benefits nature provided them.' However he started to lose the case when Barry presents the consequences of what taking honey from bees with harsh methods was doing to them, from having their homes destroyed to degrading their species with having bear jars being used to sell honey when bears kill bees and destroy their hives, and how humans take credit for the hard work bees do by using their honey to sell themselves. When Barry declared he and the bee species were suing the human race for taking their honey without consent and using cruel methods to take it from them, and how humans were taking credit for the hard work bees do to make that honey, Montgomery was called by the major food company CEOs and honey farms for help. Montgomery is a lawyer for the food companies in America.

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