"That was my best move under the circumstances," Kevin said mournfully. "Because what I just saw—that was a leadership decapitation. It’s a classic cointelpro thing. A tribe that’s making big trouble—they’ve gotta have a charismatic leader. If you’re a sensible, modern cop, you don’t want to butcher a crowd in the streets—that’s old-fashioned, it looks bad. So you just target the big cheese. You knock that lead guy out, smear him somehow.... Child abuse is a pretty good rap, satanic rituals maybe.... Any kind of ugly-paint that’ll stick a little while and really stink ... and in a pinch, you just steal him. So then, when all the second-rankers are wondering where King Bee went, that’s when you round ’em up. After that, even if Mr. Wonderful comes back, their big momentum’s over. They just give up and scatter."