Part 2, Chapters 33, 34, 35, 36 Summary

Alex Cross returns home late from work to find his family waiting for him on the front porch. Upset that his nights seem to be getting later and later, Nana lectures him about his love life and reminds him that his kids were counting on him to take them to the movies. Cross takes Damon and Jannie to the park to play basketball in lieu of their movie plans. After returning home, he makes his dreaded but promised call to Judge Connolly, assuring the judge that while the FBI was working hard on his wife's abduction, they had no news yet.

In thinking about the recent abductions, Cross cannot make sense of the abductors' increasing carelessness. Burns convenes an emergency meeting. An agent from the Behavioral Analysis Unit tells the group that there has been another kidnapping, a male victim abducted...