Chapter 5 Summary

Kay and Mark drink with Sparacino for an hour as he feigns drunkenness. Mark invites himself into Kay's room for a nightcap and asks her to stay until the afternoon so they can confront Sparacino. Recalling how Mark never spends the night in the old days, hating the vicious debates, and feeling empty, Kay yearns for Mark. He knows she would never duck a fight.

Having rehearsed at breakfast how to handle Sparacino, Kay comes to Orndorff & Berger in the afternoon. The lobby is a heartless black space, but the empty offices are spacious. Sparacino's is double the size of the others and done up in black. Kay declares that the items receipted to the forensic labs (not her office) do not include the manuscript he needs. Sparacino doubts her word and says it is worth a lot of money to at least...