Rivers pulled the hook out of the fish's mouth and dropped it in the bucket.
"If I can catch a few more we can have them for dinner tonight," he said as if I were some old college buddy that dropped in for a visit.
I shook my head, "No, Lieutenant, I can't stay. I just came to see if you were the one that has been threatening Sharkey Russo's life. Clearly you're not."
"No, the only lives I threaten these days are in this pond, Jake. Someone's threatening Russo's life, huh? Well, good luck to whoever that may be."