"We had quite the biz going on," Vankler said. "Rolling numbers constantly in the black no matter how much we spent. An important clientele list that numbered the economically elite in this sprawl and in Cal Free. Then, a wiz piece of biz went down all wrong. Some of our people got geeked. Quint nearly ended up with a toe tag himself. Some of the ones who got flatlined were chummers. Or, let’s say as close to him as he lets anyone get. He got it in his head that I was responsible and took off."