The Star’s betrayed me, there’s no other way of reading it. They’ve put me "beyond salvage". Like the Cutters, Lone Star has decided that Richard Larson is "out of sanction," to be eliminated with extreme prejudice. And like them, the Star sent out the equivalent of a hit team to fry me. And, still like with the Cutters, I recognized them—after the fact. The biggest difference from the gang is that the Lone Star attempt brought with it a higher level of collateral damage than I really want to remember right now ... .