Summary

The Reverend speaks to yet another media outlet. He is irritable and wishes he’d never dragged Tariq’s name into this storm. The reporter tries to manipulate Sloan into declaring war, but he deftly deflects those questions. The fact of the matter is that the questions that are being asked by the media of Jack Franklin are the questions that the police should have been asking all along. And why aren’t the police talking to the other people who were there, Sloan counters. The interview concludes and Sloan feels bitter.

Tyrell is in the nurse’s office at school. Drinking and drugs don’t work for Tyrell he decides. He’s only been sick at school one other time. That time it was a stomach flu and when he went home he’d caught his father in bed with another woman...