Part 1, Chapters 22, 23, 24 Summary

When Alex returns home very late that night, his friend John Sampson is waiting for him on his front steps. Sampson, Cross's partner and best friend before he left for the FBI, comments on Cross's late-night arrival. The two men have a couple of beers and talk about Sampson's wife and Jamilla. Cross misses working with him and begins to plot about getting him into the Bureau. Sampson tells Cross that his wife is pregnant and he would soon be a father.

In the King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania, The Couple dons costumes in order to blend in with the crowd while they follow their next target. Audrey Meek, a celebrity fashion designer, has her two small children in tow causing The Couple to debate whether or not to snatch her with the children present. Slava thinks it would be...