He’s been staking out the switchboard room at the downtown Sherman-Belmont Grand Tower Hotel for the last 3 months. Every night, he had been monitoring the comings and goings of the phone operation staff, plotting his execution. PD never makes a move until he’s absolutely positive he can maneuver the entire score blindfolded if he has to. Well that time has come, and so has a sexy young man. When PD sees Astengo checking in, he switches into action mode. He disables the main receiving wire to the switchboard room, and patches it with a phony that mimics the real one.
