Lalo hesitates. He looks Hickey over. "What do I think about it?" he says. He glances around. That he can see it, it's just the two of them. "You got everything you're gonna keep? Let's walk and talk. And I'll tell you. We don't want anybody to see us here. I mean" -- a slightly teasing grin -- "especially not you. I don't want you to get your pretty little ass kicked again."

Too much? Too soon? Lalo seems to intend it good-naturedly enough anyway, looking entertained.

It's not that Hickey seems trustworthy, exactly -- he does not -- but something about him strikes Lalo as a kindred, someone he can open up to about certain things. If nothing else, based on this alone, he's certainly a practical man, unburdened by silly little things like sentimentality or respect for the dead.