[ Ah. So that's what it took to make Hickey believe him that the matter is urgent. Angelo doesn't know if he's satisfied to have gotten through or... maybe a little disappointed that Hickey isn't meeting this with the same all-powerful smile. That's a dangerous sentiment. Relying on someone's strength is quite close to trust, and he still refuses to indulge the latter.

Angelo takes the cigarette back, though he doesn't take a drag just yet. ]

None of it is to his detriment, so his hunger for survival should keep him in line.

[ 'Should' being a keyword that Angelo doesn't like the sound of. ]

Just let me know how much he knows by the end of it.

[ He's not demanding to be part of selecting the information Tozer will be fed, but he doesn't want to become one of the people in the dark about the internal politics of all this. ]