Episode Two

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Voyage meet Village fullegee. I sat
across from Tony heart racing, trying not

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to think about what I'd put into
motion and what he'd think if he knew

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the truth. She's dead. Three
slugs in the chests tend to do that

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to people, She said, maybe
destiny herself. Does that make any sense

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to you? I looked Tony dead
in his eyes and lied to his face.

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No, Reggie searched this heavy shopping
bag Monserie carried. She had cash,

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lots of it. There were three
more bags of its stowed in a

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bedroom closet, tens of thousands,
easy drug money. Did you call the

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police? I saw the sunrise out
the seven three precinct window. Tony's bleary

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eyes affirmed his story. I knew
Tony had many personal relationships law enforcement.

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If he hadn't, he likely wouldn't
be sitting here. Did I ever tell

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you my real name? No?
You never told me, squat, But

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I looked you up. Tony smiled. That shows a definite attraction to your

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future man. Interest in I noticed
you didn't deny your future man pot Keep

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dreaming, big boy, I've got
my man. You don't want to be

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missus Manitopolis, our Terro Manitopolis.
Can't imagine why you changed it. I

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shouldn't have. Greeks are the great
philosophers. Oh, of course, Plato,

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Aristotle you everyone knows that, and
you're still Greek. Born in Astoria,

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family moved to Brooklyn when you were
three years old, went to the

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public schools, graduated high school at
seventeen, worked at a fast food dump

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at eighteen, legally changed your name
and enlisted in the US Army. Yeah,

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I thought it had toughened me up. Tony was no pushover, but

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he was soft in some ways.
I found myself wondering if he would still

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be so enamored at me if he
knew who I really was. You think

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Destiny has handled up with drug dealers
one way or another. Victim perpetrator,

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both gonna find out. Did she
have a best friend, a boyfriend?

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People she runs with, sure,
but no one that seems like they'd have

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anything to do with this. How
about a white guy, tall, lean,

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well groomed. Now where does that
description come from? I showed a

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picture around the neighborhood. Brian Rogers, You're kidding, Chair of the psych

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department. Tony wrote his name down
on a small pad. He always carried

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former chair. He's the one that
hired me. What was she doing with

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him discussing psychology? I presume he's
a brilliant teacher. So where'd you see

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him in the hall outside Brian's classroom. There was a semester when I'd be

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hurrying from my practice to class and
they'd be talking after his class ended.

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You stopped and chatted many times.
Yeah, briefly I had to get to

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class. Did they say to each
other? I was just saying hi,

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I told us Sinacier tomorrow, exciting
stuff like that. They didn't say anything

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to each other. His eyes hardened
as he stared at me, scrutinizing my

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demeanor, my tone, my body
language. But he didn't know anything.

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Really, what would happen when he
did? He would never forgive me.

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I wanted to tell him everything.
I wanted to tell him how this all

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started and my part in it,
but the words wouldn't come out of my

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mouth. No, I was just
there for a second. They said hi

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to me. No one else comes
to mind that I should look at Taylor

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McAdams. You just remember that.
Yes, I was sick to my stomach.

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I just needed him to find destiny, not learned her life story,

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but he wouldn't stop. So who's
Taylor McAdams? A student? Smart,

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pretty, foul mouth, troubled criminal
family. Oh nice recommendation. What about

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it? They were in my class
together A number of times. I saw

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them speak after class. I don't
know that's okay. I'll find that.

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You'll need me to identify her.
What I need is for you to tell

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me the truth. He was smart
enough to know something was wrong. A

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second I told him what I had
done, he'd be gone, and no

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one else was good enough to find
destiny and kind enough to want to You

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got something to say, say it. Let me help you. I'll go

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home and change pick you up front
entrance in forty minutes, time enough for

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me to get Reggie. Hi,
Reggie, you can push the seat all

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the way back. Reggie was six
to five, two hundred and forty pounds.

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I remembered from the announcer at one
of his boxing matches. My car

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was of average size. Reggie made
it look like a clown car. I

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put the car in drying. Who
are we pursuing Taylor McAdams? Enlighten me,

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Lisa. She's a student at Brooklyn
University knows Destiny has a brother inside

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for armed robbery, and the rest
is just rumor? What is the rumor?

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Father abandoned the kids, mother has
a drug problem. You seem to

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know a hell of a lot about
this kid. Now hear stuff from Brian.

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You know where she lives. Guess
where we're going. We made the

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lights and got there fast, slowly
we slid past the address. A wooden

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fence devoid of one thirded slats sagged
around the property. Trash bags and junk,

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rusted appliance sat forlornly outside of the
fence. An uncut grass grew in

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the front yard, and thin and
irregular like weeds. The house was a

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brown bungalow with paint peeling off its
side facade. A distinct smell of slow

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rot was in the air. What
a lovely vacation, spy fun for the

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whole white trash family. We circled
the block and parked across the street.

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Who's knocking on the door? Nobody? We watch and wait why? Because

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a family like that, she's more
likely to lead us to persons of interest

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than tell us, Tony, you
have a magnet for zimbray. You would

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have made a great professor. We
waited. It was past six thirty,

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it had been a cloudy day,
and it was dark. Lights were on

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in the bungalow. At eight o'clock, a middle aged woman came out.

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She was painfully thin, with reddish
hair going gray. She wore a shapeless

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coat over what looked like a robe. The dog she walked with some kind

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of terrier who looked healthier than her, and who barked at anything that moved.

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She went back inside, and we
waited for long minutes. Nothing moved

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on the block. Reggie looked forlornly
out the window. Detective work is too

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exciting for most people. Fortunately,
I can stand the stray. Nine o'clock

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came and went, and then ninety
scrawny cat nosed through the mcadam's garbage bags.

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The front door opened. There she
is Taylor, a slender redhead maybe

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twenty one, stepped through the door. She wore a denim jacket and jeans.

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Her hair was up in a bun. She carried a large cloth shopping

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bag. She turned left out of
her house in the opposite direction from us,

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walked three doors down, got into
a battered brown sedan and fired up.

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She pulled away from the curb.
Her left tail light was out.

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I let her reach the corner and
took off after her. We rolled out

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as Taylor left turned onto the avenue. A game Taylor's zigzag through traffic and

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we followed two or three cars back. The missing tail light made her easy

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to follow. She's going up to
that dive on the creek opens onto Jamaica

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Bay, point of mariners, water, rats, drunks, and local tufts.

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It's pretty clannished, so they're now
welcoming of outsiders. It's avoided by

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cops who let the folks inside resolve
their own disputes, often with knives and

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brass knuttles. What a perfect spot
for a nightcap. Taylor is going there

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for the ambia. A working girl
would be my guess. We eased into

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the gravel parking lot at the bar. The dump sat partly on solid ground

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and partly on pilings built into the
brackish creek. The smell of tar rotting

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pilings dead fish filled the air.
With the cold march breeze delivered a fresher

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scent off the ocean a mere several
miles away across the widened bay. The

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bar's gruffled exterior almost seemed welcoming.
Reggie pulled his knit cap low over his

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forehead and donned the aviators and hunkered
down like he was six inches shorter.

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We crossed the lot and Reggie and
Tony stopped inside. I waited for them

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outside. I checked the slim line
automatic pistol in my jacket. Tony and

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Reggie didn't know I was carrying.
To be fair, they didn't ask.

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I knew Tony would learn the truth
eventually. I just hoped he'd find destiny

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before then. I knew this was
the kind of bar where I wouldn't even

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on the person with the gun.
I meant Tony needed my help, don't.

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I pointed my pistol at the bouncer's
chest. He had a hand in

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his jacket going for a gun.
Another local had clearly come to Taylor's defense

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and stood half cocked over Tony,
who looked like he'd already taken a couple

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of punches to the face. I
felt pride and shame at the fact that

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my hands, as always in situations
like this, were completely steady. Slowly

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your hand out of the jacket,
or the last thing you see is his

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dirty floor with a relaxed smile.
The hunk of muscle did as he was

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told. He held his hands in
the air. Boys, it might be

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time to leave. Tony gesture to
the owner posted up at the end of

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the bar. Nice place. I'll
be sure to recommend him. Reggie and

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Tony advanced to the door. Lovely
to see you again, Taylor. I

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smiled at Taylor. Taylor looked ready
to hurl an avalanche of the sadies,

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but didn't say a word. We
stepped outside into the cold air. I

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still held the gun in my right
hand. With my left I took Tony's

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arm. You sure know how to
make a girl feel special. I noticed

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a bruise on his cheek starting to
form where he got punched by the local

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tough Tony. I'm thinking it would
be best if we decant. I gave

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Reggie my keys. He got behind
the wheel, Tony and I got in

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the back. Reggie roared out of
a lot. My hands probed Tony's face

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gently for a break. We need
ice on this. It's just a bruise,

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Honny, I'm fine. And the
rear view Reggie spotted my hands on

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Tony's cheek. All in all,
I think Tony should be thanking the goon

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that swattered them. Who's next,
Let's get home. Champ five am arrives

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quickly, too quickly from my sparing
partners. Why do any of them get

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in the ring with you? They
heavily armor, heavily pay. Oh,

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I must learn stuff. I mean
they learned his best to dub. After

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a moment of genial silence, Reggie
got serious. That wasn't a college football

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washout. Balancing at that bar.
I could tell by the way he carried

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himself. Former military probably specializes for
somebody Russia. How do you know he

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was Russian? First? The accent
was Russian. He talked before you came

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in my intelligence outfit on leave,
A few of us spent ten days of

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Russian, talked to a lot of
Russians, spoke English. Second, did

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you notice the tat on his neck? No, I was looking at his

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hands. Wise, Champ looked like
a wolf. It was emblem of the

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Killer Wolves, an elite outfit of
the Specs. Not actually they're a biker

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gang, but they have former commando
members. The way he carried himself,

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you're right, and his calm when
Lisa had him seconds from death, He's

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seen combat, lots of it and
desperate struggles of that former commando for sure.

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What's he doing here? How many
working girls can't be Jesse Taylor?

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There must be more in the back
rooms, or they work different shifts or

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nights, so it's a big time
operation. Different dives and dumps all the

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way from Coney Island to the Queen's
Line, probably skirting the line of the

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bay. Our friend wasn't the bouncer. He's the local sales manager, would

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be my guess, making the rounds
on a weeknight. We were lucky enough

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to hit the joint when he was
there. He's not the brains of the

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outfit, just the chief muscle.
Who's he working for? Russian mafia?

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Without a doubt? We were quiet. All we could hear was the thrumb

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of the tires as Reggie drove.
Who wants bitch enemies? Anyway? My

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Upper west Side lady, you have
a hell of a way with words.

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You're forgetting my teenage years. Will
you handle a gun? I won't forget

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it again. We approached Reggie's apartment, Who's added a light a block and

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a half from Reggie's building in the
rear view. He caught my eyes,

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Lisas there's some connection between Taylor and
Destiny. They know each other from my

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course, nothing more, Tony,
what do you think? Nothing more?

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Destiny hooked up with drugs, Taylor
with prostitution, Destiny with the cartel,

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Taylor with the Russian mafia. They
don't responding. Some gangs is dabbling both.

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Muldoon had an Irish mob in Hell's
kitchen. Certainly does true, but

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the Irish mob is diversified in different
businesses. The cartel specializes one product and

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they do it superbly. We pulled
up in front of Reggie's building. Reggie

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left it running and leaned back over
the driver's seat. What is Destiny is

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moonlighting for the Russians? Too dangerous? She disappeared. Reggie looked carefully at

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Tony and I Tony she did.
Tony had no response. I had no

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response. I dared say aloud.
Reggie eases through the narrow door and out

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onto the sidewalk. It rained.
I drove Tony into his place. So

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Taylor can't help us on this case. Probably not, but we'll circle back

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to her later. Meantime, I'll
follow up the lead. I'm sorry I

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let you in a false direction.
I truly was sorry. Sometimes you stumbled

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down a blind alley and get punched
in the face. But I'm glad you

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were hid to night, Lisa,
I'm glad I was too. Tony took

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my right hand in his. I
didn't resist and drove with my left.

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Would you learn to handle a gun
like that? Where was in Hell's kitchen?

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The real question is from home,
okay, from whom Stevie Savage?

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Who my first love? I was
seventeen hearing that he released my hand?

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Who was he drug dealer in Hell's
kitchen? Yes? So how did the

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megabright kid it would grow up to
be a PhD in psychology and an expert

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psycho therapist get tangled up with street
thugs and drug dealers? My parents had

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met at your all, the modern
Tony At Princeton, I was an only

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child. I was sent to New
York City's most exclusive prep schools. Expectations

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were high, pressure, remorseless.
I did very well until I got sick

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of it, you rebel. I
was sixteen, seventeen at planned, I'm

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going to Stanford, maybe Harvard.
I had the grades to get in,

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we valedictorian, all that stuff,
and then I just didn't care what you

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do. I had undo a lot
of fights. My teacher on the Upper

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west Side. Tell my parents there
was a devil inside me. If there

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was, I was born with it. My parents gave me far too much

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love to be responsible for it.
I played basketball all the time in Riverside

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Park near my house. They're bad
boys were there. Their leader, tall,

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lean man, big knuckled hands.
Showed me a fifty bag of blow

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in his pocket. He had dark
eyes, dark blonde hair. Stevie Savage.

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We smoked dope. He introduced me
to blow. We did the West

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Side clubs. We stayed out all
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I eventually came to my senses.
How long did that day? Three?

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Maybe four years? Stevie and I. Stevie Savage, that his name.

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He was twenty one when I met
him. Was hooked in with the

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Irish mob. In Hell's Kitchen.
Terrence Muldoon's crowd bought off rival thugs,

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brutally packed a brace of forty fives
and twin shoulder holsters under windbreaker or leather

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jacket. They were not for show. Believe me, Stevie Savage today,

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bone Yard or the joint. He's
a lawyer, silly Steven Savage dealing put

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him through Fordham Law. He's a
hot shot, some big firm in the

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city. So what happened between the
two of you? Yeah, it's never

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gonna last forever. I'd always known
it. Stevie two A couple of years

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my next birthday, it would be
my twenty first. There was time I

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pulled in across the road from Tony's
walk in apartment. I reached my right

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hand across the seat and took Tony's
near remind me of him. After that,

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I didn't move, I didn't speak, neither did he. His hand

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was still in mind. Lisa,
how are things with Nikki? I mean

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really not good. You're sleeping in
separate bedrooms. Yeah, for several years,

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he said, my other hand and
gently pulled me to him. He

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kissed me. I responded for a
moment, but only a moment. Tony.

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I can't soon, Lisa, We'll
waste in our lives. You need

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sleep. How will you find Destiny? Oh? Reggie and I asked around

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at Betsy Head Park. We think
a guy there, Blaze, knows what

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Destiny and Monsourie were up to.
Basically, we're going to kidnap a drug

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dealer and beat him for nation out
of him. O fun, Can I

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help sure? Bring Stevie Savage in
his brace of forty five's Tony was joking,

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but I did bring Stevie. We
picked him up the next night in

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front of his building heln drugs bas
Tony admired the Doorman building and the unscaled

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of cord. So there's lawyerer.
Stevie shook Tony's hand. He had a

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double make care smile. He was
in his mid forties but looked thirty.

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He was tall and lean as a
ray pier, taller than Tony, which

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Tony seemed annoyed by. He had
mischief etched in his eyes. He wore

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a black turtleneck, battered brown leather
jacket, black jeans, and dark running

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shoes. He looked ready to command
a squadron of US Navy fighter jets.

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All he needed was the scarf.
I jumped into his arms. Tony turned

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away. I didn't do it to
make Tony jealous. Steve and I had

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history. Stevie recognized Reggie Reggie h
r D. I've seen you fight at

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the garden, but I ain't check
James Bonk crushes Smith three times in the

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second round. He was tough,
but not tough enough. Well, I

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SHO, didn't know your champ.
We headed to betsy Head Park. The

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dealer we were after Blaze had a
diamond chain in the shape of a crowd.

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I pulled my slim line automatic cystol
out of my jacket. We spread

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out and stalked through the park.
The avenue was to avoid a foot traffic

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and just a loose crew of dealers
chatting. A dark suv approach from the

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opposite direction. It's passenger side window
rolled down an A R fifteen thrust through

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the open window, and for a
flash of time, everything came to a

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standstill, and then with a grating
roar, the auto cut loose, spitting

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naked steel at the dealers. I
hit the deck, my chin, scraping

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pavement, stunning me. The AR
fifteen hit its tar. I get the

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blaze so much for our source.
Multiple slugs tore his chest, spinning him,

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driving him backward, hurtling him to
the cold sidewalk, where he lay

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on his back unmoving. I hugged
the ground, hands around my head,

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and then the suv picked up speed
and the thunderous noise ceased. I crawled

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toward blaze. Reggie was already crouched
by his side. Reggie shook his head,

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he's gone. From behind me.
I heard the roar of a heavy

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handgun firing multiple shots at the rear
of the accelerating death car on the ground.

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I whirled Stevie Savage crouched on one
knee, held a heavy forty five

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and two hands, and pumped round
after round into the vehicle's tires. Tires

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burst with an explosive snap. The
suv careened wildly, skid past my car,

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slammed at high speed into a parked
vehicle two cars in front. I

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was on my feet, racing towards
Stevie. The driver of the death car

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was thrown clear the impact with the
ground on his back with a sickening thud,

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and lay still. The day's shooter
staggered from the vehicle, still clutching

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the ar but down by his side. He struggled to stand upright. I

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was five feet away. I held
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a two handed grip, drop it. The ar cladded to the ground.

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The shooter leaned against the car,
steadying himself When he looked up and focused,

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he raised his hands in surrender.
He took a step forward, and

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then he swung a wild right hand
at my head. I ducked under him

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and came up swinging. I laid
the barrel of my pistol hard across his

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temple. He fell back against the
wrecked car and slid down its surface to

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the asphalt. Rachel came up to
me. He reached down and hoisted the

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unconscious shooter to his feet. Form
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Driver is not gonna make you.
Lights were starting to come on in

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the surrounding buildings. Tony strode around
the vehicle, get him in the call

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let's get the hell out of here. We stuffed the shooter in the back

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between Reggie and Stevie, fired up, angled out, and searched on to

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the avenue. Stevie was talking to
the nine one one dispatcher by Betsy had

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need mt quickly. Yeah, I'll
be here. My name Errol Flynn.

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We drove off, certainly having committed
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It might be our best shot at
finding destiny. Redmead Village is a

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production of Voyage Media. The series
is produced by Nat Mondel, Robert Midas,

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and Dan Bennamore, directed, produced, and adapted by Dan Bennimore,

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based on Andrew Bernstein's upcoming novel at
the same name. When a link to

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the novel is available, it will
be listed in the show notes. Starring

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Catherine Bell as Lisa, Malik Yoba
as Reggie, and Ryan Heavy as Tony.

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Additional cast credits are available in show
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