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The perfecting morning may come as long as you own trains.

Chad Scott is heading to an appointment at the DEA's Office of Professional Responsibility,

OPR. It's the DEA's version of Internal Affairs.

Chad has pissed off a lot of people in his career.

Some have waited years for Chad to get in trouble for something.

They're killed to hear Chad face the music.

The Drug Enforcement Administration is notoriously secretive.

They wouldn't tell us anything related to Chad's case,

but we've got the tapes from that room at the DEA's headquarters in DC.

Thanks to our sources, we're a fly on the wall.

It's February 2016, a cold windy day in DC.

Chad's an intense guy, he's blonde, blue-eyed, but like a boxer.

Chad's a kind of guy, you can tell immediately he's a cop.

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