“Why didn’t you take me with you?”
Tackmann laughs. “You could have been my client.”
“You’re the greatest, man. They didn’t give you a lot of extra time on that?”
“Nope.”
“Nope?”
“Nope.”
“Why not?”
Tackmann smirks. “Because I’m going to beat ’em at trial.”
He also has a backup plan. It might not happen in Rikers, at the Hanukkah party, or upstate. But when the time comes, he will know what to do. This is his gift. “I see ways out,” he says.

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