Part 3, Chapters 5-6 (pages 309-331) Summary

Kyra surveys the fire's damage to the Da Rose estate, and finds that not one piece of the home remains intact. She figures that the Mexicans are to blame for the fire. Kyra thinks that they are like the barbarians outside the gates of Rome, only they are already inside. She returns home, and she and Delaney discuss how the police let the two suspected Mexican men go free.

Delaney and Kyra go out walking, hand in hand, to look for Dame Edna, who has been missing for three days. Jack Jardine pulls up in his car and asks them to get into his car, so he can show them something. Jack drives to the front gate of Arroyo Blanco Estates. There, on the white wall, someone has defaced the gate with big black graffiti...