"Yeah, I compensated Rose fair and square in all our deals. C'mon, there's no way I could make her do anything as she didn't want to, and if I was treating her like a slave - and let's be clear, I wasn't - you think I'd let her run around way she does, out of the hold and away so far? Any slave'd have a mind to run off and never come back." Thumbs said. His face was starting to get this ugly, greasy look as he started to perspire.<br/><br/>"Taxes. It's taxes. He's uh . . . he's got some of the new hands doing the collecting, and they aren't, you know. Good with numbers. Three different sets of Dogs try to shake me down for extra when I already paid my share. Each one of them says, 'got word from Top Dog, personally, can't go back with nothing.'" Thumbs said. He looked nervous, but then, that was being under Marco's direct scrutiny.