(Much later Carl will realize he was not thinking clearly in this moment. He never looked at any of his fellow officers’ cars at the trooper station because he figured most would have eyes. They beat their wives and sold fake vaccine cards and hid their opioid addictions, and worse—much worse transgressions than anything Carl’s done, end of day. He hated those guys, but he did have to work with them, and that meant playing See No Evil in the parking lot.)
