Gately did, as a coercive collector, demap one person, but it was essentially an accident—the debtor had been blond, and drinking Heinekens, and then when things got physical he’d squirted Gately in the face with Mace, and a red curtain of rage had descended over Gately’s sight, and when he’d come back to himself the debtor’s head was turned 180° around on his neck and had the little Mace can all the way up one nostril,
Sometimes I forget that Gately is a murderer, and here it seems not only once but twice.
