There usually comes a reckoning with many folks like this, their boss was dug out of a hole and hung by the neck until dead and they have no solid protection like before - blood ties, revenge and money can have a long, long reach and a shank in an alley may await many of them - maybe Dr. Germ has been found a nice little hut on the Paki frontier someplace along with a small stipend, cynicism warranted IMO