Chapter 42 Summary

Graham and Crawford are once more in the empty courtroom discussing the profile Crawford wants Graham to complete. Graham is distracted. The film from the Jacobi case has arrived, and he is anxious to see it. He hopes to find a connection between the two families, or at least to get to know this family a little better. The film that catches Graham's attention the most is a recent one in which the family celebrates the son's birthday.

Graham notices in the film that, when the Jacobi's bring the boy's bicycle, a gift, out of the basement, they come through a door with a padlock on it. There was not a door with a padlock on it at the house when Graham went to see it. However the killer brought a bolt cutter to the house the night of the crimes, a fact...