Maybe they'd already had a run in and that was the last straw? I dunno.

[Sure was crazy. And seeing all the blood on the table, watching the fella squirm around. It wasn't like the cops were steps away from arriving. What was at stake really?]

As long a he keeps his finger in a time like that.

[He'd feel beaming with pride if he wasn't floating on the low end of the mood pool.]