That’s when Cote’s colleague said, “You know, Jack, he never wanted to send out the request in the first place. He had recommended against it, and all of us on the staff and Tom Hartnett, our boss, said no, we were gonna start using this stuff in the future, so we still needed to do it.” Jack was taken aback. “So you just took the knife for those guys?” he asked. “Well, I didn’t view it that way,” Cote replied. “You don’t throw in your friends on something like this. You just don’t.” Jack kept shaking his head: “Wow, geez, wow. That’s something. Wow. Okay.”
