[He just gives her a disgruntled look back at that smirk, because he's fairly certain that charging people for their own belongings is a racket that more than makes a living for the shopkeeper, but they don't have much choice beyond robbing the store, and Margie is too useful to lose her as a contact. Very much like their major source of information here, really.]

The civilians here are useless. [He dismisses them out of hand, mentally calculating how much money he has left.] The military is barely any better.

We need to target their top brass, but we've got to find them first.