Black Bird

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Hell, I was taken aback, too.

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(He learned the game from his Irish grandfather, but the Chin doesnt hold that against him.)

Unfortunately for Jimmy, hesnotjust a humble Wisconsin gunrunner.

Thats what he tells Lauren McCauley, the FBI agent posing as his girlfriend to throw off suspicion.

Well, its indecorous to discuss.

I just kinda jam it in, he murmurs in his reedy voice.

Theyre okay with that?

Oh, I dont care, Larry replies.

Then he continues, Do you?

Do you care what the girls think of you after?

I dont know, Jimmy stammers.

I do, Larry says.

That never happened for Jimmy, much less for Larry.

What might either man do if this sense of entitlement were not satiated?

Juxtaposed with all this, Agent McCauley and local cop Brian Miller continue investigating cases potentially connected to Larry.

But the case falls apart upon further investigation.

Guards are brutal and predatory figures, their every smile masking the threat of punishment or death.

Its a fucking jungle in there.

But the lead performances fuel the whole thing.

And wheezing over it all is Paul Walter Hausers Larry Hall.

without peer on the current small screen.