Howard Murad wakes to an impossible situation, but Sinn Re provides an unlikely explaintion.

“Are you familiar with the poet and playwright John Dryden, Murad? He was a clever man, one who could use wit and rhyme to
comment on the state of our pathetic existence,” Re said. “I am sure you know the work of Milton. Dryden took liberties with the old master’s most famous work. He called it The State of Innocence, and The Fall of Man.” Re’s lab coat flared as he animated the quote. “‘Chang’d as we are, we’re yet from Homage free; /We have by Hell, at least, gain’d liberty; /That’s worth our fall; thus low though we are driven, /Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.’”

Torsha Lofton is confronted, and then the lights go out. Jeffries visits Crenshaw and learns something new about the injured detective's late father.

"Those men? Torsha had keen powers of observation even before becoming a journalist or dating a policeman. That Chevy is still in the same position it was in before I went into Mr. Kim’s pharmacy. The two men seated in the front seat pretended to read newspapers. They really ought to try something different, she thought. Who sits in a car on a busy street reading the paper? She noticed that they were parked close to the corner that was home to her bank, the one she had denied
using when asked by Jeffries, the one from which his gambling debts had been paid.

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Kyle Janich turns six, going on 30. Sue and Kathryn Wallace exchange notes on the ongoing investigation.

“Discovering one such coin was a spectacular event, never to be repeated. Now we find out that your father repeated that impossibility ten times! The ramifications are immeasurable.”

“I’m sorry, I don’t see what’s so important and why so many people had to die. It’s only money.”

Wallace dropped the BlackBerry to her lap. “You know, I kind of agree with you. The sale of the one coin a few years back took a court decision. We, that is, the government would never allow another such sale. These coins would end up in the basement of the Smithsonian.”

Sue remained silent.

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Barbicas pleads his case for returning to Chicago. He also gets the bad news about Professor Everett Crenshaw. “Know a man’s passion and you own him. I am not sure even you know what you want. And that, my son, makes you a very dangerous man.” -Sinn Re

Herman Jeffries comes clean, sort of, to Torsha Lofton about the extend of his gambling debt. And more.

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The chief visits the most dangerous acre in Chicago, and receives some startling news about Lani Janich, the killer with more secrets than body count.

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Captain Stacy Crenshaw is facing a serious surgery, but what happens before she goes under the knife is nothing she was prepared for. 

Chief Herman Jeffries looked at his watch. It was 1:30 a.m. The involuntary gesture was also a sign that he was nearly tapped out for the night. Never look at your watch; sends the wrong message. He was beyond caring. This wasn’t a game. It was handing his money over to the five people at the table, and he made a mental note never to play with them again. It was easy to keep such a promise in the high-stakes poker rooms of the three area casinos, and he doubted he would see any of the players in the private, after-hours games he frequented. The chief’s run of bad luck was getting uglier by the night.