towards christmas 2004, eddie observes andy employing billy's friend paul trueman (gary beadle) into the business so he could expand his criminal empire on drug dealing. when eddie approaches the rendezvous point to carry out andy's preparations, however, andy deduces that paul has set them up in a police sting operation - which prompts him to have eddie leave the area and get rid of all evidence that traces their would-be involvement in the apparent drug operation. eddie does so and andy later has paul killed in retribution, which inevitably sparks a conflict between paul's adopted father patrick (rudolph walker) and andy himself when paul's body is recovered the following month.