Chapter 21 Summary

Late Saturday afternoon, Fitch launches his next and most severe attack on the jury. He sends Pang and Doyle around to Easter's apartment where they break in and, after stealing his hard drive from his computer, set fire to the apartment. They then run around the building, telling other residents of the building to evacuate, and then disappear. Four apartments are destroyed and eleven are seriously damaged.

Doyle and Pang return to Fitch's office and Fitch gets some of his best computer experts to work on Easter's hard drive, which is a maze of codes and passwords and proves difficult for even the best computer whiz. They manage to retrieve a couple of documents. There is a letter to his mother, signed Jeff, a bunch of dreadful poems and a six-page summary of current news items about the tobacco industry. Also of interest...