The video is NYPD ceiling-cam footage from an interrogation room at the Six-Oh Precinct in Brooklyn. (Time code on the video shows it is six hours old, in other words recorded about ninety minutes after the actual apprehension on the seawall.)

In the video Yoo-hoo sits manacled by one wrist to a slide-bar on the table before him and by both ankles to a stanchion embedded in the floor. For some reason he has waived his right to have an attorney present. On-screen, Gleason, Silver, and two ESU sergeants visit upon Yoo-hoo wrath of Old Testament proportions, to which the assassin stands up with extraordinary composure and aplomb.

I’m watching with earbuds in and privacy screen engaged. If anyone in the office knew I was accessing this material (or anyone from the mayor’s office down, for that matter), I would be in deep, deep doo-doo.

I cue the tape and let it roll.

For the first hundred and eighty seconds, Gleason on-screen confronts Yoo-hoo with airline and rental car records proving that he was in Moscow at the exact hour when Russian victim #2, Alexsandr Golokoff, was murdered.

YOO-HOO

I was there on vacation.

GLEASON

For fourteen hours?

Gleason tells Yoo-hoo he knows he’s working for the FSB. He knows he’s collaborating with freelance U.S. assets. Gleason demands that Yoo-hoo spill everything he’s got on “Jake Instancer,” or whatever this individual’s real name is.

YOO-HOO

Who?

GLEASON

Jake fucking Instancer! We know he’s a contract killer! We know he’s working with you!

YOO-HOO

Never heard of him.

Three hundred and forty seconds of video follow, during which Gleason confronts Yoo-hoo with surveillance camera footage of Yoo-hoo in the hallway of the apartment building of New York Victim #1, Nathan Davis, nine days before Davis was murdered.

This interval is succeeded by Silver displaying before Yoo-hoo Verizon Wireless records showing calls from Yoo-hoo’s cell to Davis’s home on two separate occasions, nine days and six days prior to the murder.

YOO-HOO

So what?

GLEASON

You went to Davis’s apartment. Why?

YOO-HOO

To see him.

GLEASON

Cut the bullshit.

YOO-HOO

To visit him, if you don’t fucking mind.

GLEASON

You “visited” him?

YOO-HOO

Is that against the law?

GLEASON

And you called him.

YOO-HOO

So what?

At this point, a shadow falls across my screen.

Manning stands behind me.

He says nothing, only watches in silence as the video continues.

For the next forty seconds it’s Yoo-hoo who takes the offensive. “You assholes burned down a preschool! What if children had been present? What am I supposed to tell the kids tomorrow? That the cops broke in trying to kill their uncle Yoo-hoo?”

GLEASON

Why did you phone Davis, you slimy piece of shit?

YOO-HOO

He phoned me.

GLEASON

My ass.

YOO-HOO

He was scared. He wanted my help.

GLEASON

Cut the shit.

YOO-HOO

He thought someone was following him. Stalking him.

GLEASON

So he called you?

YOO-HOO