Rodeo knows Sarge is impatient. He is too. They are men of action, and all this waiting and planning don't sit right on them, like a scratchy and too-small sweater that you can't stop fidgeting in. It ain't all that different from when they were kids lined up against the wall for a time-out earned by bad behavior, when the time spent waiting for their sentence to be up would seem to stretch for an eternity. Rodeo is ready to crawl out of his skin, anxious and furious and determined to raise hell as he is. The plan helped focus him but he's ready to move instead of just planning now.
Except they still got a whole night of waiting to get through.
Rodeo's gonna need this whiskey to balm his burned out brain, and he empties his glass in a big-mouthed gulp before pouring another. He often drinks straight from the bottle, but there's a set of whiskey glasses in the Council Chambers that he always feels tempted to use when he's here. Something about the tent makes him prefer glasses. Maybe it's the satisfying feeling of sliding the glass over the smooth surface of the table Sarge built for this tent, a table that is likely the only piece of furniture Rodeo's ever been able to rightly say holds a place in his heart.
But there's a reason why he opened with the issue of trust. The burden he's about to put on Sarge is great. He knows his best friend can handle it, but it ain't gonna be without some dread and grumbling and Rodeo wants him to understand why he's the only one he can rely on before they get started.
"The plan I just told this table, I'm countin' on our rat to take to the Mayor," Rodeo tells Sarge. "'Here's how I figure it. Somebody at this table is gonna rat on us, the chicano cats ain't gonna give a fuck if my baby girl and I make out alive, and the Capitol isn't gonna wanna let either of us go. Too much o' this can go wrong, can't trust nobody. So I reckon I figured a way that if it all goes wrong, it'll be goin' right for us. I ain't gonna be downtown, brother. While y'all are holdin' up the pigs with them negotiations outside the courthouse, I'll already be inside the Capitol gettin' our baby girl."