Sections 8 - 10 Summary

While inspecting the aircraft, Chee is approached by a man and a woman who introduce themselves as Gail Pauling, the sister of the dead pilot, and the man says he was the pilot's attorney. Chee shows them both what he has found, the line of small indentations where the battery operated lanterns had been placed in the sand and where the sand told him that the plane had landed in the wash on at least one previous occasion and, finally, where the wheels touched down on the night of the crash. The implications of the placement of the lanterns dawn on Gail Pauling and she now knows that her brother had not stood a chance of surviving the crash and that he had been deliberately tricked into crashing.

The attorney , Ben Gaines, asks Chee questions about the shot that he heard...