St. Elizabeth's: Federal interest in the cross-border Nucks

Gately's beef escalates into geopolitics: alongside the BPD, "some rather weirder Federal guys with goofy-looking archaic crew cuts, probably involved because of the like inter-O.N.A.N. element of the Nucks." The Canadians Gately shot were not local muscle but had "the like inter-O.N.A.N. element" — a cross-border dimension that draws Unspecified-Services-type Federals (Steeply/Tine's people, cf. 151) to a halfway-house shooting. A private brawl becomes a national-security matter the instant "Nucks" are involved; the O.N.A.N./Québec conflict reaches down into an Ennet House deposition. (Yolanda's spike-heel-through-the-eye — the A.F.R.-signature echo — and the "rearranging Canadian maps" map-idiom are disability-deformity's / the addiction-recovery aftermath; noted, routed.)