San Diego PD is on the way.

If your transport arrives before they do, you send it away.”

He looked at her, and at Nathan, and at the casket.

Then he said, “Yes, ma’am,” and went to make a phone call of his own, and Margaret later learned that what he did in the next four minutes was call his own office and place an administrative hold on the disposition, and that this was entirely his decision, and that it was the single most important thing anyone did that day besides a seven-year-old whispering into a sleeve.

Part Eight: Sirens on Camino del Rio

Michael Turner arrived at 11:52 with two marked units behind him.