How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Green was the first big bend in the Whitey Bulger highway [...] Connolly quickly set out to ensure that the case would never leave the Organized Crime Squad. (1.3.18)
Although the deal with Bulger is shady from the onset, it's not until Bulger is accused of shaking down a local restaurant owner that laws really start getting broken. Connolly then implements a system he'll use time and time again when Bulger gets in trouble: stick his hands in his ears and say, "Nyah, nyah, nyah." More or less.
Quote #2
Rico had fashioned a "unique" style in his approach to the messy business of managing informants and had set the tone for other handlers in Boston: rules were made to be broken. (1.4.1)
Even before Connolly starts working for the Boston FBI, Agent Paul Rico makes corruption the law of the land for the Organized Crime Squad. In fact, Rico protects Steve Flemmi the same way that Connolly later protects Whitey Bulger. The dude literally writes the playbook on how to inappropriately manage informants. The anti-rulebook, if you will.