The Broken Window
“I’ve never understood why people complicate it. Movies, for instance. I’m not a fan of thrillers but I’ve seen my share. Sometimes I’ll take a sixteen out on a date, to stave off boredom, to keep up appearances or because I’m going to kill her later, and we’ll sit in a movie theater and it’s easier than dinner; you don’t have to talk so much. And I watch the film and think, What on earth is going on up there on the screen, setting up these contrived ways to kill?
Page 222 Why use wires and elec...tronics and elaborate weapons and plots when you can walk up to someone and beat them to death with a hammer in thirty seconds?
Simple. Efficient.
And make no mistake, the police are smart (and, how’s this for irony, a lot of them have SSD and innerCircle helping them out). The more complicated the scheme, the more chance of leaving behind something they can use to track you down, the more chance for witnesses.
And my plans today for this sixteen I’m following through the streets of lower Manhattan are simplicity itself.MoreLess
Page 222 Why use wires and elec...tronics and elaborate weapons and plots when you can walk up to someone and beat them to death with a hammer in thirty seconds?
Simple. Efficient.
And make no mistake, the police are smart (and, how’s this for irony, a lot of them have SSD and innerCircle helping them out). The more complicated the scheme, the more chance of leaving behind something they can use to track you down, the more chance for witnesses.
And my plans today for this sixteen I’m following through the streets of lower Manhattan are simplicity itself.MoreLess
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