Chapters 10-12 (p. 228-296) Summary

Fat Charlie awakens in a jail cell, wondering how he got there. He is allowed to go outside to the exercise yard but when he does, thousands of birds of all kinds aggregate on wire mesh slung skyward over the yard. He calls for help and is ushered inside by a guard. Maeve Livingstone's spirit returns to the Grahame Coats Agency as she searches for him and for her body. Fumbling in darkness, she pulls out her ringing cell phone to see her husband's image and hear his voice. He pleads with her to come to the spirit world and join him in his loneliness. She tells him straightaway that she has no intention of joining him until she haunts Grahame Coats.

Disguised as Mr. Merryman, Fat Charlie's attorney, Spider enters his cell, takes his brother by...