'I wasn't even in the fucking bank, man.'
'Where were you?'
'I was just the driver, man. Malone knows that.'
'How,' Samuelson said.
'Man, I told him. He knows I didn't shoot that broad.' We were quiet for a moment. We had been right. It was as if we all knew it at the same time. The other two let me say it.
'You were the mole,' I said.
'Huh?'
'You were the undercover guy. The informant. You were working for the Feds and Malone was your handler.'
'Yeah.'
Leon seemed calm about it. He still assumed the Bureau would take care of him.
'And when the bank job went down, they didn't want you compromised.'
'Right.' I nodded.
'So who killed Emily Gold?' Samuelson said.
'I don't know, man. I tole you. I was in the car. They come busting out of the bank and said Emily got shot and to roll it.'
'Who was in the bank?' I said.
'Shaka, Bunny, white hippie asshole I don't even remember his name, and Emily.'
'Shaka was Abner Fancy?'
'Yeah. Sure.'
'Emily go in with them?'
'No, I tole all this to Malone, for crissake. Emily was the scout. She go in ahead of time, case the place, and if she don't come out in three minutes, we go in. They go in. I just the driver.'
'And no one ever said who shot her?'
'No, man. I figure it's some fucking cowboy bank guard, until I read the papers and they say it ain't known who shot her, and then Malone get me and ships me out of town.'
Clark forgot his vow of silence.
'And set you up here?' Clark said.
'Yeah,' he said.
Clark's face showed nothing.
'Where's Shaka?' Samuelson said.
'I don't know.'
'How about the white hippie asshole?'
'He's dead.'
'How.'
'I heard Shaka shot him.'
'Because?'
'Because he a fucking cokehead and he having a fucking miscarriage about the shooting in the bank.'
'And Shaka thought he'd rat?'
'No harm being sure,' Leon said.
'Except maybe to the white hippie asshole.'
'How about Bunny?'
'Shit, man, I ain't seen Bunny since it went down.'
'Weren't you her main squeeze?'
Leon shrugged.
'For awhile,' he said. 'She used to be Shaka's when he still Abner Fancy. Then he dump her for Emily, which leaves her on the loose. So Bunny's a pretty hot little bitch, and I scoop her for awhile. But I dumped her before the bank thing. I think she was having eyes for Abner again.'
'Who was now Shaka,' I said.
'Yeah. We was all big for names back then,' Leon said.
'You know Emily had a husband?' Leon smiled a very thin smile.
'I heard that.'
