the DuPlessis burglary: DuPlessis as covert V.I.P. — the insurgency ecology
the right-hand man to probably the most infamous anti-O.N.A.N. organizer north of the Great Concavity, the lieutenant and trouble-shooting trusted adviser who selflessly volunteered to move with his family to the savagely American area of metro Boston to act as liaison between and general leash-holder for the half-dozen or so malevolent and mutually antagonistic groups of Québecer Separatists and Albertan ultra-rightists
Context
What makes a botched burglary a geopolitical event: the gagged little Canadian is the coordinator holding together the whole anti-O.N.A.N. coalition — "half-dozen or so malevolent and mutually antagonistic groups of Québecer Separatists and Albertan ultra-rightists" — a first map of the insurgency's ecology as a fractious alliance, not a single cell, kept leashed by one covert operative living undercover in the enemy metropolis. The politics of DuPlessis's death-as-geopolitics is 031's; here it is his living function that lands. (The burglary/robbery mechanics and Gately's addiction are addiction-recovery's, routed.)