Matt meets Dave Courtney for the first time and is surprised by everything he sees and hears. Nothing is as he expected. Dave's best friend Brendan is a coward and Matt hears about how the now deceased psycho Ray really lived up to his name by hatching a plan to murder his wife in a very inventive way. Dave talks about the time one of his men phoned him from a dustbin that he was hiding in to ask for help. Matt realises that he doesn't share Dave's ability to read people.