These are the questions and worries that occupy Zack and Emily. Every time they leave the apartment in the morning, every time they turn a corner or board a subway, it is anxious, fraught, nerve-racking.

Emily has inquired about separate police protection but the police reiterated that they are watching Joey already so a separate protection detail is redundant.

Emily can’t sleep.

Zack awakens to find her staring at the ceiling.

“It’ll just be a couple weeks. And we know they’re watching him.”

But Emily cannot be soothed. Rationality can’t always calm you when you’ve had a gun held to your head.

39.

39.

Joey, walking around. But in fact planning nothing.

No master plan. No standing across the street from Zack and Emily’s or Steve’s apartment. Not thinking about Emily or Zack or Steve, or any of that.

Thinking about Karloff.

Thinking about himself.

Trying to figure things out. For instance, what had Will really been doing in jail? In Joey’s cell?

Joey had first assumed—when Will admitted to Joey in the sedan that he worked for Karloff and explained how he’d gotten in to share Joey’s jail cell—that it was to keep an eye on Joey, to make sure Joey didn’t flip or squeal or consider a plea deal in exchange for leniency. Maybe, too, Will was even there to protect him, to make sure Joey stayed alive because Karloff wanted him out to do one last job for Karloff, one last job Karloff seems to feel Joey owes him.

But now he’s rethinking it all. Did Will really get in there the way he said? Is it really that easy to manipulate prison system records and computer programs? Or was that a bluff on Will’s part? A lot of smooth bullshit? Meaning, did he come into the cell some other way, with official assistance, which seems much more likely?

Joey’s suddenly seeing some deeper, subtler, trickier possibilities.

For instance, the prosecution must have been asked at some point if it was okay to put a cellmate in with Joey. Their eyes may have lit up at the prospect, and they probably said yes, figuring that the cellmate might relay something to them—especially in exchange for consideration or release—never realizing that putting Will in there achieved the exact opposite. Having him there guaranteed they’d learn nothing from Joey. They’d cut off the information flow with exactly the move they thought might open it up.

Maybe the prosecution wanted to plant an informant in there with Joey, and when his defense team or Karloff learned that, they managed to insert Will. That would make more sense, wouldn’t it? That would be how he’d gotten a cellmate. One agreed on by both the prosecution and the defense. Maybe his slick defense team had cleverly engineered it to be Will.