Gately watches the punter: the Division-1 body as paid muscle
The use of Gately and Fackelmann’s rump-roast-sized fists in actual hands-on coercion got called for only when a compulsive debtor’s lies and hole got serious enough that Sorkin became willing to forgo the guy’s patronage in the future.
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The squandered gift finds a second employer. The body once worth custom helmets is now inventory for a bookmaker — Sorkin's "Twin Towers," their "rump-roast-sized fists" a coercion instrument metered out "in like stages." The same size and jolly-ferocity that made Gately a fullback asset are re-monetized as hired violence; the athletic body didn't stop being capital, it just changed hands.