Dossier
Brian Heder has been in the Vice County contraband business long enough to have moved from doing the work to managing it. He runs a boatyard. His third wife, Lori, is there too. The legitimate front is functional enough that nobody looks too hard at the other activity moving through the same dock.
He does not do the dirty work anymore. He facilitates it. He knows the routes, the timing windows, the people who need to be kept quiet and the people who need to be kept happy. That institutional knowledge is worth more than any individual job.
At a rooftop meeting with Jason and Lori, sharing cigars over the city, he tells a long story about a fairground carousel from his childhood, a friend who cranked the speed too high and didn't let go in time. The moral is blunt: you have to know when to get off. Minutes later he pulls Jason aside with a job that has to happen that same night, and makes a point of only wanting one of them for it.
His arrangement with Jason Duval is practical. Heder provides housing, rent-free, in exchange for the errands and for stopping by when Lori needs company. Jason handles the enforcement situations and logistical complications that Heder used to handle himself. Neither party needs to put that in writing.
