Chapters 27-31 Summary

This section begins with Lucas calling for the cell phone records, just before he receives the call that LaChaise is at the hospital and may already have Weather. At the hospital, LaChaise has taken a guard by force and is arriving on the surgical floor. There, he forces two nurses to take him into the operating room, where he retrieves Weather and takes her into a small office at the end of the floor. Weather begins a conversation with LaChaise, as he holds a gun to her head and calls 911, insisting that they patch him through to Davenport.

Lucas has arrived at the hospital, along with a sharpshooter. Both are on the surgical floor but staying out of sight. Weather, hoping to convince LaChaise to surrender, continues to talk with him about their similar backgrounds, both having grown up on farms...