Wouldn’t you?

Paolo’s cool challenge caught the DI on the hop. He couldn’t follow up on his claim. He moved to quizzing Paolo about the ransom demanded.

Paolo did as he had earlier and denied any knowledge of a ransom, saying that Tony had kept that to himself, adding that he thought that Tony may have been told to keep schtum about that side of things. Paolo insisted that he was just there as a bodyguard.

“Well why would Mr Monelli need one of those then?”

“If someone was on the loose cutting off fingers, then wouldn’t you want one?” retorted Paolo.