the pond-draining spect-op: the Chief of Unspecified Services convenes above the park
U.S. Chief of Unspecified Services Rodney Tine, standing with his hands at the small of his back at a window on the eighth floor of the State House Annex on Beacon and Joy Sts., looking southwest and down at the concentric rings of pond and crowd and trucks
Context
The federal apparatus staged directly over the crime it cannot see: "U.S. Chief of Unspecified Services Rodney Tine" watches the pond-draining from the State House Annex while his operatives — "Rodney Tine Jr. and Hugh Steeply" — wait behind him. The dramatic irony is the scene's politics: the head of the bureau charged with the "Canadian Problem" (107) stands at a window looking down at the very park where, out of his sightline over the ridge, the A.F.R. is about to snatch a man. The O.N.A.N. security state surveils the concentric rings of a duck pond while the insurgency operates in its blind spot.