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He looked back at the pit. Dukie was sitting on an overturned milk crate, counting crumpled bills. The boy was afraid. Mackey could see it in his shoulders.

Dukie’s mouth was dry. "The boys on Baker… they skimmed. I swear." the-wire

"That’s a truck," Rojas said.

Detective Sean Mackey had been a good police once. That was the tragedy of it. He cleared homicides, knew the difference between a body in a vacant and a body on a porch, and never once flinched at a crime scene photo. But fifteen years on the job had pickled him. Now he sat in the fluorescent hum of the Homicide bullpen, staring at a dry-erase board that told a lie. He looked back at the pit

Mackey stood in the empty courtroom. Rojas was beside him. "He's bought," Mackey said. "Everyone is bought." Mackey could see it in his shoulders