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"What do you think you're doin'?"
the mobster repeats gruffly.
Tim may as well be naked -- at least,
that's how it feels. His hiding place has been destroyed thanks to his
clumsiness and the fallen barrels, and now he is just crouching in the
shadows, in plain sight for the two men whom he has been observing.
He cannot answer the question.
One of the men abruptly moves closer
to Tim and grabs him by the collar. "What are you doin' here?" he demands.
Tim struggles to his feet. "Nothing.
It's not ... I was just--"
"You was just what, spyin' on us?"
Tim keeps his mouth shut.
"Whoa, whoa, hold on," says the other
man. "Look at him."
The man who has been grabbing Tim's
collar releases it and steps back. The mobsters stand side-by-side, examining
Tim.
"It is, isn't it?" the first one
says.
"Yeah." The second man shakes his
head. "I dunno why Moriani would send his kid to take care of this. Oh,
well ... Did he give ya instructions for what he wants to do with the rest
of the money?"
Tim's eyes go wide. "No, no. I'm
not--"
"Do ya at least have what he owes
us for today?" Tim sees the man fingering what he is sure is a gun inside
his jacket.
"I don't have anything," Tim says.
"Who the hell does he think he is?"
one of the men exclaims. "Thinks he can keep jerkin' us around like this
-- it ain't gonna work."
"Look," Tim says, "I'm--"
"You shut up," the man barks, suddenly
whipping out the gun and jamming it into Tim's chest.
"But--"
"I don't wanna hear another word
out of you. If Moriani thinks he can play games, then fine. We can do that."
Tim clenches his eyes closed, not
wanting to have to see this. He feels the gun's barrel digging into his
chest -- and then the pressure released. The gun is being pulled away.
He opens up his eyes and sees the men stepping backwards away from him.
"You just tell your daddy," the man
with the gun says as he backs up, "that we can arrange other ways of erasing
his debt."
Tim gulps. He watches the men backing
away, moving away from him, and the pressure of the situation begins to
ease up. He draws a deep breath, making up for all the air he's missed
in these tense moments--
But he doesn't get to release the
air. It catches in his chest again when he sees the man raise the gun.
It catches the moonlight and glints brightly.
That flash of light is the last thing
Tim sees. The gunshot sounds and, before anything else can register, his
world falls to black.
END OF EPISODE #189
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