His ambitions were boundless and his morals lax.
Becket lent himself entirely to his master's ambitions, which at this time centred round schemes of territorial aggrandizement.
While he would have the same goals as a single man, he certainly has high ambitions to acquire a good lifestyle for the people he loves.
He could lie and tell them he was a police officer or sheriff and maybe squeeze some tidbit of information about recently released mom Patsy, but surely Fitzgerald would find out and tank his election ambitions, if those aspirations weren't already six feet under.
While you may not have any ambitions of showing off doing full splits, it prevents problems that occur due to shortened muscles.