Summary

Lady recalls how she had first met Macbeth, four years earlier. A degenerate gambler, Ernest Collum, had taken one of the Inverness Casino's dealers (Jack) at gunpoint, and Macbeth and his SWAT team had been called in to diffuse the situation. Macbeth convinced Collum to play him in a hand of blackjack, while lying by saying that the casino would pay back two times Collum's debts if he won the hand. With Lady as the dealer, Macbeth distracted Collum for a split-second -- and then killed Collum by flinging a dagger directly into his eye. Back in the present day (at night, in their shared bedroom in the Inverness), Lady quickly convinces Macbeth that Duncan should be killed because it would clear the way for Macbeth to be a truly effective, moral Chief of Police.

As part of a plan that Lady and...