The Whisper Man

The police interview Tom while he privately worries how much agency his son had in the evening’s events. Jake isn’t forthcoming with the police about what happened and seems disconnected from Tom. Tom adds that he saw another man around the house and then mentions the Neil Spencer case. The police don’t have much to offer, and Tom becomes frustrated. He mentions Rebecca’s death and the difficulty that he and Jake have had as well as how much the evening’s events scared him. Jake perks up at that and says, in a raspy voice, “I want to scare you” (120).

Pete wakes up and is relieved to see that although he broke the seal on his bottle of alcohol, he didn’t drink any. At work, the relief fades as he must reckon with Neil Spencer’s discovery and the altered mood in the department because of the boy’s death. At the morning briefing, Lyons reviews the details of the case, and Amanda Beck gives a speech, saying that they’ll find the killer before he can claim another victim.