the acquisition run, professional tradecraft
Michael Pemulis, nobody’s fool at all, rides one necessary bus to Central Square and then an unnecessary bus to Davis Square and a train back to Central. This is to throw off the slightest possible chance of pursuit.
Context
The procurement scene proper, conducted like counter-surveillance: one necessary bus and one decoy bus and a doubled-back train, the drug carried home in the detachable lining of a yachting cap. The tradecraft is disproportionate and habitual, the ordinary craft of an economy that treats every transaction as a thing to be laundered through misdirection.