“The gluteus and quadriceps muscles are among the strongest in the body I will rip your head clean off.”

“Yes ma’am.”

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And then we sleep and then it is morning and Volodya is still dead and I am not fine.

Beyond the obvious there is a problem here like an organizational problem like in terms of information availability and compartmentalization. That is to say that certain facts are privileged within the organization and our close partners in our enterprise and it is worrying very worrying that these facts may have been revealed to third parties in a competitive modality that is to say snipers.

There’s a problem.

There’s a limited number of people could have made the call to get someone in place. There’s us and a limited number.

This wasn’t one of us.

In the general run of things you work with criminals you assume some measure of betrayal as kind of ambient. There is ambient treason. But look: Charlie straight up liked the old guy and Lucille is so batshit crazy that it’s hard to say if he actually deals with the world in a sufficiently parallel fashion that there’s anything he could want that he could get this way. Doc doesn’t need to betray anyone because she is totally fucking terrifying and if she wanted us dead we would all die full stop no discussion. And then there’s Rex and if you had to say one thing for Rex you would say he is true to his friends.

That and he really likes blowing shit up.

It’s true that as a group we are variously and ambiguously involved in the sad death of Rex’s brother Big Billy but that was mostly Fred and Fred is now resident on the end of a stick. If Rex wants to get even with Fred he could have the stick. I have offered it to him and Rex says no that is fine he just likes to look at it from time to time and laugh.

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Normally I would look at Saul because Saul is the new guy like the temp hire and although correlation is not causation you can always kill it and burn it with fire and just see what happens. But Saul does not know what we are doing here.

I would look at Calvanese but ditto and plus also if it was Calvanese we’d know by now because something else awful would have happened most likely Saul. While I do not know Saul well I believe it would be pretty awful to have him happen to you.

So there’s a limited number.

A limited number and that number is three. In no particular order—

There’s Mr. Client. There’s Sharkey.

And there is the lawyer.

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VoIP outgoing ring ringaling—

“Grüß Gott Herr Reinhard.”

“Hi Mr. Reinhard it is me Jack.”

“Oh hallo Jack what can I do for you?”

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