Chapter 4-5 Summary

Dr. Cross waits at St. Anthony's Hospital for news about Marcus. John Sampson, his lifelong friend and fellow police officer, arrives to console him. The two men took much different paths to the police department: Dr. Cross earned a Ph.D. in abnormal psychology from Johns Hopkins while Sampson had a stint in the army before joining the force. Sampson offers to visit Marcus' parents, who run a crack house, and kill them. The parents used Marcus and his siblings to run crack for them. A nurse informs them that Marcus has died and was likely nearly dead by the time he arrived at the hospital. Dr. Cross is saddened over losing a patient, Marcus, who had sought him out for psychiatric help. Sampson takes Cross home and he is unnerved to see cars belonging to several family members parked in...