"No, Rabbit. Tell me more. Tell me who else is swingin' this deal?"
"Don't you know?"
"Harry Belok?"
Rabbit Markey nodded.
"Jergen?" asked Charlie Jingle with bated breath.
Rabbit Markey nodded his head.
"How they do it? Tinker with the Fighters?"
"You ever see Hammerhead get knocked off his feet?"
"I don't get it—they lemme buy my own way into the news, is that it? I think I'm perfectly legitimate. So does everybody else in the game. What then?"
"Then a story breaks someplace about the way Pugs, Inc. tried not to give you a fight. Everything looks like Pugs, Inc. is scared stiff of you because you can ruin them. Big build-up. Even Jergen goes to bat, confesses he tried to help you get the fight. Everybody's sore as hell at Pugs, Inc. They force a fight, Tanker goes in—and gets slaughtered. See?"