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o find this guy Perrine?” Diaz said “I mean, how much, really?”

“He put out a hit onat the LAPD cop in the rearview “I want him as badly as humanly possible”

“I figured,” Diaz said “See, this guy To to be hard-core and definitely not stupid If he’s helping out Perrine, there’s no way he’s going to voluntarily co to cooperate”

“I take it you have another idea?” Emily said

Diaz nodded

“Back in the late nineties, we had a scandal out here with a gang unit called CRASH These CRASH cops went off the rails They fraive out awards if a gang member was shot”

“Your point being?”

“These gang guys re an arrest they and their defense lawyers claiht be able to use the rep of these crazy CRASH guys to put a little pressure on our friend Tomás”

“What do you ?” Emily said

“No, of course not,” Diaz said “But what if we … I don’t know … pretended to?”

“Yeah?” I said

“I don’t know,” Emily said

I smiled

“I don’t know, either, Eet creative, to think outside the box Besides, we need information, not evidence It would never make it into court”

“Exactly,” Diaz said “It would be a bluff all the way, but at this point, that’s all we got We need to do so”