Chapters 18-19 Summary

Kaiser wakes Glass in her hotel room late that night with a phone call and she invites him up to her room. They fall into an intimate conversation, with Kaiser telling her how his marriage ended and Glass confiding she would like to have a family. They begin to kiss and are getting even more intimate when they are interrupted by a phone call. Somehow Baxter has deduced that Kaiser is in Glass' hotel room and is calling to tell him that Thalia Levau has disappeared.

They rush to the Emergency Operation Center, a complex office of specialists working on the kidnappings. Kaiser and Glass learn that Laveau evaded FBI surveillance to protect her lesbian lover with whom she had a date. When she did not appear, her lover notified the police. She also provided alibis for Laveau for many of...