[Art]

So you walk in, he’s already alone, sitting by himself in the corner, nothing but ocean behind him?

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[Raylan]

That a problem?

[Art]

Just seems like he made it easy for you.

[Raylan]

Didn’t feel that way when he was drawing down on me.

[Art]

All I meant is he did you a favor sitting there by himself, no one behind him.

[Raylan]

And here I forgot to thank him. You know anybody carries a gun for a living who doesn’t sit with their back to the wall?

[Art]

What if he’d been eating with someone?

[Raylan]

If there was someone else at the table, I wouldn’t’ve sat down.

[Art]

Meaning when you sat down, you were already planning to shoot him.

You get what I’m saying, Raylan? We have a letter-of-the-law, spiritof-the-law problem: guy pulls first, gives you no choice but to put him down. Which is fine unless it looks like you maneuvered him into giving you no choice.

[Raylan]

So, you want me to tell Vasquez I don’t think in “what ifs.”

[Art]

Don’t let him bait you into speculating, let your smart mouth talk you into a jackpot. I ever tell you what my daddy said about lawyers? He said, “Treat lawyers like mushrooms: feed ‘em shit and keep ‘em in the dark.”

[Raylan]

You sure that was your daddy? Could’ve sworn I heard it in a movie.

[Art]

Where you think they got it?

Point is, Vasquez may be all right, but you still don’t give him any more than you have to. You let Bucks’s history as a maggot, plus all the witnesses saw him go for his piece, do your talking.

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