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“It just seems so elaborate I mean, if they’d just killed Ray and then found Bobby with blood on hih”

“Cri uess”

“But they had to know that footprints are as individual as fingerprints,” he said

“I beton you just pulling the trigger on Bobby and not overthinking it Once he’s dead, then the case is over The carpet gets cleaned or ripped out and replaced The rooets deep-cleaned, and all the evidence, real or fake, just goes away”

“Murders when I was just a unifored and saved for trial It orth your badge to mess up potential evidence Now it’s like none of itthem”

“By the time we’re called in, there are usually a lot of bodies in thevaular jail to await trial didn’t work, because they used supernatural powers to escape, usually causing the death of even more people on the way out the door”

“I know that, Blake It’s one of the reasons I wanted to become a marshal in the first place” His words were okay, but the tone and his face weren’t

“Sounds like you’re having second thoughts about your career change,” I said

He looked surprised and just stared at me for a second “It’s like now, this case There’s only one person dead, so it’s an eye for an eye, but we both think that so our job, to commit a second uilty, he’s a dead man”

“Yeah, there’s a lot of rooe of justice in the system,” I said

He stared at ain “You say that so matter-of-fact, as if it’s just business as normal”

“It is, Newman”

“How can that be okay?”

“I didn’t say it was okay I said it was normal A lot of what people take for normal is very not okay”

“Then I don’t understand,” he said