VLVL2 (3) A Finesi Romance #1

[Terrance]

> The "fatal five-spot" as the "fatal glass of beer" fits the way I read the scene. Doesn't fit the way you read it.

How could it? It's not in the book. 

Anyway, it's not all that important. I can go along with a reading of
the scene that argues that Van Meter is simply stupid or stoned or both
and that this is Hector's first time to their beach pad and that the
fatal-five spot is the first payment the boys take from Hector. What's
it matter? Why let this little detail divert our attention away from
what we were discussing. 

You've argued that Hector is a hard boiled bastard and who is 

"blind to the possibility that somebody might decline to
participate in one of his schemes because of basic human decency" and
that Zoyd is never turned. 

Did you get this from a WC Fields movie or what?