Lots of things changing at work. Our support staff left, which makes things almost eerily quiet, and while I actually did a fair amount of the stuff she was supposed to be doing myself, the things she did do are things I do not want to mess with and am not sure who is handling them until we get a replacement. Whenever that happens.
Jack meets with Omaha and Elene, Jack's new contact from the Marshals' office. They discuss how Jack got into Witness Protection, and then Tobin addresses the question I had after the first issue. How does Jack avoid discussing all this killing he's doing if he's incapable of lying? The answer is, he refuses the answer the question, framing it as an invasion of privacy, which no one enjoys, including Elene. I'm not sure how long that's a viable strategy.
Jack later meets Vera, the lady he's been chatting with online, and their dates go well. Although Vera still believes Jack is making up the stuff about being a former mob accountant now killing his old bosses. And it's while killing the future heir of the Pinafore family he makes his mistake. Which is catching a glass of wine as it falls off the table, leaving behind fingerprints. During a hit he's performing in a busy restaurant in the middle of the day. The cop runs the prints and finds they're under security clearance. She knows Omaha and calls him to see if he can help, and now Omaha knows Jack's been a busy boy.
I expected it to be less of an obvious mistake. Like, I thought it was when he killed a guy during his bathroom break earlier in the issue and casually pushed the door open with his hand. I guess there would be no way to know those were the fingerprints of the killer.
It'll be interesting to see how Omaha handles this, or Elene if it falls to her. Omaha and Jack act like old pals. They sit beside each other in diner booth, offering to buy drinks for each other and busting one another's chops. Elene sits across from them both and Alburquerque sets up panels so that Elene is in opposition to Jack and Omaha. We're looking over her shoulder and seeing bother guys chatting and joking, or we're looking over their shoulders and Elene is visible between them, like a wall.
To Elene, Jack is a former criminal she is supposed to manage. To Omaha, Jack's a pal. When Jack declines to answer Elene's questions, rather than finding this suspicious or backing her up, Omaha just laughs about how he and Jack have had a lot of these conversations. Since I expect Omaha to confront Jack alone first, I'm curious to see if he starts from the point that this must be a mistake, or if he's pissed Jack's been deceiving him.
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