Brick Page #5

I've got some stuff.

Frisco Farr was found on a sidewalk,

three weeks ago,

outside of Pinkerton's Deli.

He was in a coma.

His stomach contained a sausage sandwich,

a horse dose of heroin

and traces of choleric tricemate,

which is a poisonous chemical

found in laundry detergent.

He's still under.

Nobody's talking,

so nothing's come of it.

- OD?

- No.

The chem the junk must've been

cut with put him down.

Bad junk, bad brick.

Could that form of heroin be called brick?

It was a concentrated powder.

Its street handle's

"whip," "rock" or "brock."

From Laura.

I told you to stay clear of Laura.

You tell her to stay clear of me?

I got to get voicemail.

No, tell her I'll be at The Pin's at 1:00.

- Any news with the Lug?

- No.

No news.

- This isn't good.

- No.

Ask.

Administration.

Gary Trueman's office, please.

This is Trueman.

What the hell are you doing,

asking for me in class?

What the hell are you doing out of class?

What?

The VP and I needed to ask you

a few questions

about Emily Kostich,

who you might have heard is missing.

It's a very serious thing.

The police are involved.

The VP and I knew you two were close,

so the VP and I came to ask you questions,

but you were truant.

- What?

- I've been cut loose.

I'm not safe here.

We shouldn't have met in the open.

All right, lay low, but ask

on the underneath for Dode.

He set up whatever Emily walked into.

It's getting more and more

urgent that we talk.

What are you going to do?

I would have liked to have played

it safe, but there's no time.

The Pin's not letting anything drop.

- I have to push things a bit.

- How?

I don't know. Find Dode.

What with the poking, genius?

Maybe you're poking for your bull friends!

Don't be a sap. I can't even face

up at school, the VP's so hot for me!

Yeah, maybe you're looking to make good!

I'm looking to find this

big game The Pin's played.

Not to gum it, but just so when

its tail jams in my back,

I know who to bill for the embalming!

You ought to ask him what you wanna know.

I did, he didn't tell me!

The Pin's not giving me the straight.

That makes me nervous.

Makes me angry.

Yeah.

That's understandable.

There was 10 of them.

I don't know where he picked them.

He didn't tell me.

So we get 10 kils of brock.

There ain't enough marks in the

whole burgh to eat that.

So he unloads eight up north,

even up to the docks.

- I don't know who.

- Didn't tell you.

Yeah.

That was eight.

So that's the 10th in there.

We gotta break it off into doses.

Sell off around the High,

maybe some by Shorecliffs.

What about the ninth brick?

Yeah, there were some problems with that.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

It disappeared.

Someone skimmed it.

We started raising hell

with all the likely suspects,

and what do you know?

It came back.

But it came back bad.

One of ours took a dose

off the top, laid him out.

Frisco.

Yeah, poor Frisco.

You heard about that?

We'll catch the rat.

Just takes time.

I heard something fell with Emily Kostich.

Emily who?

Kostich.

Don't know her.

- Has The Pin talked about her?

- Not to me.

He might know something.

Ask him.

Tell me what he says, 'cause,

you know,

if you heard something,

I wanna check.

Sure.

- Pow-wowing?

- Just shooting the shat.

- Yeah, just shooting it.

- Good.

Tug, I got a call, someone who says

they know something about Emily.

- Emily?

- Emily Kostich.

Where she's at now.

Says we'd want to know.

He wants to meet.

Yeah?

So we'll meet.

Emily used to be Tug's girl.

- You know Emily, didn't you?

- A while back.

- You've heard she's missing.

- Yeah, I heard that.

So maybe you want to come along, too?

What does Emily got to do with you?

Show, maybe we'll find out.

That's my ride.

Payphone, anywhere.

The mobile customer you have

called is not available...

What time is it?

- Brendan, you've fallen...

- What time is it?

You've swallowed a lot of blood!

- Get back in the car.

- Shut up! Shut up!

You need to go to the hospital.

You're sick!

Shut up, please! Please!

Okay. What you gotta do is

drive around to the Pie House lot.

So Dode's gotta go by you or me

to get down to the tunnel.

If you see Dode,

then honk four times,

long-short, long-short.

And don't be seen.

- Get back in the car.

- Do it!

Please, I need you to do this.

I need you here.

Please.

- What are you doing, Dode?

- You gonna stop me?

What do you think you're doing, Dode?

I saw you. I saw what you did.

- What did you see?

- I saw you.

- What'd you see me...

- I was in the tunnel, and I saw you!

You were with her, dead, and you

took the body! I saw you hide it!

Yeah, I did. That's all you saw.

What about before?

Before what?

Before I got there.

Did you see who killed her?

- You killed her.

- I found the body, Dode.

No, you...

I thought you didn't.

But we figured you out.

I got the news on you,

'cause you hid the body.

- Who's we?

- Shut up!

Shut up! You're always

talking, always this and that,

smartso! You gotta shut up!

- I didn't kill her, Dode.

- You're not going to talk!

- Dode, I know what you think of Em.

- Shut up!

And I know you tried to help her.

You're going to shut your mouth!

Me and Kara, we're gonna

bury you, and we're gonna

get paid doing it, dig?

We're gonna put it over real nice!

I'm telling you now,

you're in over your head.

You don't want to put your hand in this!

- She's dead! You...

- Why was she scared, Dode?

She came to me.

Who was she scared of?

I think I know why,

I just gotta know who!

You're trying to confuse me.

- Dode.

- You couldn't stand it,

your little Em.

She was gonna keep it.

It was mine,

and you couldn't stand that!

- What was yours?

- I had you pegged.

What was yours?

I loved her,

and I would have loved that kid.

I'm gonna bury you.

What'd I miss?

Dode here says Emily Kostich is dead.

Oh, yeah?

He says he knows who did it.

He says he knows where the body is.

He says he wants more money than I think

the information is worth.

That so, Dode?

So walk. What's the info

have to do with you, anyways?

- Plenty.

- Plenty, he says.

And he wants cash on the nail.

That's a pot-skulled reef-worm with more hop

in his head than blood.

Why pay for dirt you can't believe?

No. You'll believe this.

- Maybe you will.

- No, you will.

'Cause it's someone close

to you. Real close.

Maybe it's hot, but it's Dode.

You can't trust it.

Real close.

I'm not getting my shoes wet for this.

Let him milk you if you want.

Stay.

It's still too much.

No, it isn't. You won't

complain when you hear it.

So maybe you should.

You had her up against

the wall with the brick.

I know my business.

It's still too much.

No, it isn't, 'cause that's

not why she was killed,

but it's real important to you,

'cause the person

who killed her is real close.

'Cause he's got a lot to lose.

And he knows if I don't

bury him by spilling to you,

I spill to the bulls

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