Lenz kills the Nuck dog (pp. 586–588)

Lenz kills in the full costume of a professional and with none of the actual concealment. The prose grants him every spy-gesture — "the high-kneed tiptoed skulk of a vaudeville fiend," "the blankly intent look of a short-haired man with a Geiger counter," the coat that "billows" and later fills "like a sail," the fine loafers "making a quality sound" as he vaults the fence — a whole vaudeville of stealth. But the raw punctures it in the same breath: "Any displaced and shaggy Nuck head in these windows chancing to look out into the yard now would be able to probably see Lenz depositing" the meat and drawing the knife. He is fully visible the entire time; the skulk is theater, not tradecraft. This is 142's "openly hide" debased one further step — the professionals' method of hiding in bright plain sight aped by a man who mistakes looking furtive for being unseen.