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First of all...
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...how was your trip?
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Fine.
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Good.
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I just left Stark at the gym.
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Some major revelations. Guy's a mess.
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Somebody's holding something
serious over his head...
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...and I don't think it's about money.
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He doesn't move
like a white-collar criminal.
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When he walks, his shoulders...
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... ride at ear level.
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Also, he cut himself shaving
3 times in the last 10 days or so.
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These are symptoms
of a deeply ingrained paranoid fear.
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Fear of being found out.
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I get on the treadmill next to his and I
get my machine going at his exact pace.
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I ask him what level he's running at.
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I guess 8. He says level 7.
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I'm running at the same speed he is.
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Level 5.
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He'd sooner lie to
a complete stranger...
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... than to admit to being
3 levels below my guess.
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As soon as I talk to him,
he runs the other way.
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It's conditioning, though.
A reflex.
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He obviously didn't think to connect me
to the blackmail business at all.
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If he'd suspected me...
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... he would have remembered my name,
which he didn't.
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Also, like most lvy League graduates,
he drops his alma mater with...
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...almost no prompting whatsoever.
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I say Celtics, he says Cambridge.
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Oh yeah, the gentleman prefers redheads.
He lusts after his red-haired masseuse.
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You can tell by the way
he takes his massage.
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It's more than a little eroticized.
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He does it every day at the same time
with the same woman.
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I found an e-mail message
from Clearburg.
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Kind of cryptic. Note said...
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..."Thorough check finds no boxer
with the name K. V. "
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K.V. Are obviously initials. We have to
figure out what they stand for.
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Lets see, what else?
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That's the important stuff.
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It's Sergio.
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Sergio Knight.
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Right. Whatever.
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Can I ask you a question?