Harvey Guillén

While Jim's on payroll, Joe buys him really expensive presents, but not the kind you can buy at a mall.

He buys Jim weapons and surveillance tools.

I'm talking about CIA-level stuff.

Voice-activated microphones and pistols built into ballpoint pens.

That's on top of the more standard tools of warfare.

You know, your run-of-the-mill machine guns and silencers.

At first, he says it's just because Jim's interested in those kinds of things.

But then, yeah, he buys Jim books on how to murder people.

For fun?

I'm just interested in, you know, killing people.

What?

I don't think so, Jim.

I don't think so.

Things first escalate to real violence in March.

Joe disappears one night, and when he reappears, he tells some of the people closest to him that he and Jim went and shot up a lab with machine guns to fix some business problems they were having.

Come April, someone notices a strange vial of liquid in Jim's car.

When they ask about it, Jim warns him not to touch it.

He says it's an industrial chemical solvent that, spiked with poison, it can cause instantaneous heart attacks.

Which brings us to June 1984, when Joe wakes Dean up with that $1.5 million check with Ron Levin's name on it.

Joe tells Dean that Ron's dead that day, but a few days later, he spills the beans about everything that happened.