Neuman's head of the Bureau because I said so. I tried to save her from the attack on Congress that she fucking caused!
Well, at least you didn't spend the last year getting her oatmilk lattes and every piece of intel she asked for.
[to Butcher] I would very much like to know the plan to eliminate her.
Well, that depends on what you can tell us about your little holiday down in Nicaragua.
[pause] I've never been to Nicaragua.
Really? 'Cause a little birdie told me you were Payback's case officer down there, on a classified job that Soldier Boy never come back from.
[pause; Mallory scoffs] Colonel?
Whatever it is William thinks he may have heard… he's mistaken.
Is he? You know that safe you got in your home office? The one behind the picture of Bush number one? Well, I borrowed a ledger from it–the one with all your assets around the world. How long do you think them and their families will last when I put every one of their fuckin' names on Facebook?
You'd sign the death warrants of dozens of innocent people who had nothing to do with this?
I'm embarrassed for the both of us that you're askin'.
[pause] Nicaragua's ancient history. Not to mention, I could be killed just for telling you.
And all your agents will get killed if you don't. [pulls out chair and sits down] Blimey. What a pickle.
[beat] It was part of Operation Charly.
Operation… Charly?
Reagan's pet project, off the books. Helped the Contra rebels fight the Russian-backed Sandinistas, but we needed a way to pay for it. Some of the cash came from selling arms to Iran. Oliver North's epic fuck-up. But the rest? If there's one thing that the Contras had plenty of, it was cocaine. I was in charge of trafficking the coke into the U.S. and then using the profits to buy more weapons in the fight against the Reds. Whatever it took.
That's some self-justifying bullshit. Were you part of that other thing, too?
What other thing?
She knows. [to Mallory] Tell him.
The unwritten policy was to sell the cocaine strictly to minority neighborhoods–destabilize, demoralize–while staying out of white ones. Late in '84, we were gearing up for a major offensive. So the higher-ups, in their infinite wisdom, decided it was the perfect time to throw a wrench in the works: Fucking Payback. Each more ridiculous than the next: Crimson Countess, Mindstorm, Swatto, the TNT Twins, Noir, Gunpowder, and the most idiotic of them all…
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