And somewhere near dawn, when it had run its course, the other part of me woke up — the part that had sat across from a hundred thieves and never once let one see her flinch — and it said, quietly and without drama: All right.

He has made his choice.

Now let us make sure the record is complete. I slept two hours.

In the morning I called the neurologist, and the psychiatrist, and my old colleague who still held the keys to the second camera system, and I began, without hurry, to build.

Chapter 4 — Without Counsel

Their attorney, Ainsley Bracken, rose as I approached the respondent’s table.