Chapters 31 - 35 Summary

Chapter 31: As Starling exits the motel, Crawford can tell how angry she is. They walk to the corner drugstore for coffee; and Jeff trails them in the car. Starling asks what they can do to Chilton. She also asks Crawford to let her stay on the case. Crawford tells her they'll deal with Chilton later. He warns her that he cannot save her from being recycled if she misses much more school. Starling asks him if he is "'in the glue"' with Senator Martin's people (pg. 192). Crawford tells her it doesn't matter, since he is two years away from mandatory retirement. He is careful to speak only of things that he knows to be true; he does not want to mislead young Starling with cheap wisdom dispensed to make himself feel wise. He tells her one thing that he knows...