Chapters 22-24 Summary

Nick is waiting to speak at Senator Finisterre's hearings. The senator has kept him waiting for six hours and is about to conclude without seeing him when the pro-tobacco Senator Plum presses him to let Nick speak. During the hearings, Nick and Senator Plum both imply that Nick's kidnappers may have been in the employ of Finisterre.

Back at the Academy, BR and Nick conference with the Captain; the bill requiring the skull and crossbones label is likely pass regardless. Nick says they should start thinking about designing their own skull for cigarettes, something friendlier. Gazelle interjects that the FBI agents are in Nick's office, and Allman wants to search his apartment. Nick is inclined to allow them to do so, but he realizes he has hash brownies in his freezer. Hesitantly, he goes with the agents to his place. At...