Zoyd

John Carvill johncarvill at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 17:12:56 CDT 2009


Worth repeating this, no matter how many times it's ignored, the facts remain...

>that he's doing it for
> profit is clearly implied. The "fatal five-spot" which VM "grabbed" from
> Hector back at the Gordita Beach house was definitely "not the last" (24),

That fatal five was the last we are explicitly informed that Van
Meter accepted. All we're told is that there are a lot of narcs around
teh beach, and a lot of snitch money flowing around, and that Zoyd is
happy to share in food, beer, or whatever, is purchased with that
dirty money. We are never shown a specific instance of Van Meter
taking money again, and he didn't actually mean to 'snitch' in that
one instance we do know about.



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