Chapter 20 Summary

Early Saturday morning Hoppy Dupree answers the door to two FBI agents in black suits. They would like to ask him some questions about the Stillwater Estate. Dupree asks that they do it down at his office rather than risk having his kids wake up. The agents agree and accompany him there. Down at Dupree's office, the agents ask Hoppy about Ridgewater before informing him that Hull was wearing a wire, and their whole conversation was taped. Hoppy is stuck, and he is facing jail time for conspiracy to bribe a government official. However, the agents say there may be a way out. The agents instruct Hoppy to meet with them again in 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Fitch listens to their conversation, which is being relayed to him through a tiny mike implanted in the end of a pen that Ringwald had planted earlier. Ringwald...