`` then gon na eat you and take you there again . '' there is no other way to describe it . i had to behave ; management was watching . `` this is the way it has to work . '' 'how are things going with the prisoner ? ' it must have been the second or third time we 'd ever been alone , and we were talking about birds when a young boy , obviously from out in the county , wandered up to listen . one look at smith 's eyes told him he 'd been played . 