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COINCIDENCE.
    SPIKIC: COINCIDENCE? ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE STORY OF THE COBBLER WHOSE SHOP WAS HELD UP THE NIGHT BEFORE HIS DAUGHTER’S WEDDING?
    VUGOVIC: TELL ME.
    SPIKIC: THE COBBLER HAD THE DOWRY WITH HIM READY FOR THE NEXT DAY. SO WHEN THE BANDITS SHOWED UP AND PUT A GUN TO HIS HEAD, WHAT DO YOU THINK HE SAID?
    VUGOVIC: WHAT?
    SPIKIC: HE SAID, “IF YOU TAKE MY MONEY I WILL SHOOT MY SON-IN-LAW IN THE FACE AND HAVE HIS MOTHER RAPED BY FERAL RAMS.”
    VUGOVIC: WHY DID HE SAY THAT?
    SPIKIC: TO MAKE THE BRIGANDS LEAVE, WHICH THEY DID, WITHOUT THE MONEY. YOU SEE, WHO ELSE BUT HIS IN-LAWS WOULD KNOW THE AMOUNT OF THE DOWRY AND WHERE TO GET IT? EVEN A SIMPLE SERB COBBLER KNEW THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS COINCIDENCE. YOU ARE NOT NATIVE TO OUR HOMETOWN. THEY HAVE A SPECIAL WISDOM. HAVE YOU CHECKED THE HOSPITALS?
    VUGOVIC: WE HAVE OUR FINGERS TO THEIR TEMPLES, AND ARE INVESTIGATING UNSCRUPULOUS DOCTORS.
    SPIKIC: WHAT ABOUT THE CUBANS? THAT’S THEIR VILLAGE. WAKE THE CORPORATION.
    VUGOVIC: THEY WON’T TALK TO US UNTIL TOMORROW.
    SPIKIC: WHY?
    VUGOVIC: ROBERTO LIKES HIS SLEEP.
    SPIKIC: AND THEY CALL THEMSELVES CROOKS. PATHETIC, LAZY SPICS. FIRST THING IN THE MORNING I WANT THEM ON THIS.
    VUGOVIC: WE’LL MEET THEM AS SOON AS WE CAN GET THE SPICS OUT OF BED. WHAT IS THEIR INCENTIVE?
    SPIKIC: PEACE, MUTUAL RESPECT, WE’RE NOT GIVING THEM A DIME. WE KNOW THE RUSSIANS IN PATERSON AND TRENTON. HAVE THEM PUT IN THE GOOD WORD FOR US. ANY OTHER INFORMERS?
    VUGOVIC: THIS IS NOT OUR TURF.
    SPIKIC: THAT SOUNDS LIKE A WEASEL IN YOUR ASS, AN EXCUSE.
    VUGOVIC: IT’S A REASON. WE WOULD SHAKE THE TREE FOR APPLES, BUT THERE ARE NO BRANCHES.
    SPIKIC: I’M TOLD THEY RODE AWAY ON BICYCLES?
    VUGOVIC: YES. THEY WENT DOWN THE HILL. WE FOLLOWED AND FOUND BLOOD, BUT COULD NOT TRACE WHERE THEY WENT.
    SPIKIC: GET THE RUSSIAN PHONE PEOPLE TO TRACE ANY CALLS THEY MIGHT MAKE TO ROBERTO. THESE BURGLARS MUST WORK FOR HIM. THEY ARE OPERATING ON HIS TURF. THEY WILL LIKELY CALL THE CORPORATION FOR HELP. THEY WILL SEEK HELP FOR THE INJURED ONE.
    VUGOVIC: IT WAS A WOMAN.
    SPIKIC: A WOMAN?
    VUGOVIC: YES, IT WAS A WOMAN AND A MAN, AND IT WAS THE WOMAN THAT BOBO SHOT.
    SPIKIC: IS BOBO THE HOMOSEXUAL WHO USES THAT SWISS PISTOL? GIVE BOBO A BOWLEGGED BOY WHORE, GOOD WORK. THE WOMAN THEY WILL SEEK HELP FOR. AMERICAN CROOKS ARE NOT PROFESSIONAL. THEY DON’T KNOW HOW THESE THINGS SHOULD WORK, SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED AS A LIABILITY. BUT THEY DON’T DO THAT HERE. LIKE THE SPICS THEY ARE WEAK AND SYMPATHETIC, BOATS THAT FOUNDER WITH TOO MUCH GRAIN. I AM SURE OF IT.
    VUGOVIC: THE POLICE HAVE BEEN A HEADACHE. THEY ARRESTED BOBO FOR CARRYING AN UNLICENSED HANDGUN. WE HAVE BAILED HIM OUT. THE POLICE OF COURSE ARE INCOMPETENT AND DID NOT SEE THE BLOOD. WE HAVE TOLD THEM WE ARE A SECURITY AGENCY TO PROTECT THE ASSETS OF OUR CLIENTS SO THE COMPANY WE HAVE INSTALLED HERE AS A COVER IS WORKING WELL.
    SPIKIC: WHAT OF TITO?
    VUGOVIC: HE IS UPSET. I THINK HE IS MORE WORRIED THAT THE LITTLE GLASS WENT MISSING FROM HIS CARE THAN ABOUT HIS WIFE’S MISSING JUNK. PERHAPS HE HAS ALREADY SURMISED THAT YOU MAY SUSPECT HIM.
    SPIKIC: SEND ME HIS WIFE—THAT WHORE, IDI. I WILL RAPE HER AND FIND OUT WHAT SHE KNOWS. EITHER SHE WILL KNOW HE DID IT OR SHE WILL DIVULGE TO ME HER DEVIOUS PLOT TO ROB US.
    VUGOVIC: SHE HAS A DOG.
    SPIKIC: BRING THE DOG TOO.
    VUGOVIC: WHEN?
    SPIKIC: WHEN DO YOU THINK? NOW, BEFORE THEIR STUPID BURGLARS CAN GET FAR.
    VUGOVIC: WHAT DO I TELL TITO?
    SPIKIC: MUST I EXPLAIN EVERYTHING TO YOU? I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU TELL HIM. SAY I WILL FUCK HER ASS LIKE A DONKEY IF YOU WANT.
    VUGOVIC: AS YOU SAY. I WILL BRING HER WITHIN THE HOUR.
    SPIKIC: VUGO, GET THAT GLASS, DO YOU HEAR ME? THE JEWS HAVE ARRANGED THE MONEY.
    VUGOVIC: I’LL GET IT. WHATEVER IT TAKES.
    SPIKIC: GOOD BOY. NOW GO BE A STIFF DICK AND FIND THOSE BURGLARS.
    VUGOVIC: FAREWELL.
    SPIKIC: GOOD HUNTING.
    *END*

Six
    I woke up thinking about a movie I once saw. In a hospital.
    It was a Western, and railroad