Ramos says, “Come on, we have to hurry.” Art starts to pull the handcuffs from his belt. “Don’t cuff him,” Ramos says with undisguised irritation. Art blinks. Then he gets it—you don’t shoot a man who’s trying to escape if the man is handcuffed. Ramos asks, “Do you want to do him in here or out there?” That’s what he expects me to do, Art thinks, shoot Barrera. That’s why he thinks I insisted on coming along on the raid, so I could do just that. His head whirls as he realizes that maybe everybody expects him to do that. All the DEA guys, Shag—especially Shag—expect him to enforce the old code
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