What can you say, Danny thinks, about John eating his pride, going personally to Sal Antonucci, hat in hand, to the man who killed his son to ask what he did with the body? What does that take? What does that do to a man? An old man who’s lost his son? Danny is amazed. Awestruck. Realizes for the first time why Murphy runs the docks and his own father doesn’t. It takes a strong, strong man to do what he did.
