On another wall were a series of lab reports. April began taking notes. It was the second time she had tried to do it. Yesterday, she had gotten through only the first four. It would be so much easier to trust what the analysts told her, but she had done that on a case once, only to have a Congressional staffer who studied the lab reports prove that the lab had not only fucked up but that she and the prosecutor she was working with had missed that a fingerprint was not on a crucial car door. The case had to be dismissed, though luckily there were no public hearings. She had learned then, and many other times, that if you took something far enough apart, nobody did anything. It was like quarks. She had read something, it was a physics theory, about a cat being in a box in ninety-nine scenarios but not in the hundredth. So the cat existed and didn’t exist.

FOLLOWING SPECIMENS RECEIVED ON OCT. 1, 2000 FROM U-STOR-
IT STORAGE UNIT #532 AT 23400 PAUL REVERE HIGHWAY,
EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS 02149
Q1–Q21: LATENT FINGERPRINT LIFTS, ENTRANCE, WALLS, CONTAINERS,
DRUMS, “PAMPERS” BAGS, SUITCASES
Q22–Q39: SWABS OF ALL CORNERS, ENTRANCE
Q40: AMBER SUBSTANCE FOUND IN THE LEFT FRONT
Q41–Q60: WHITE-COLORED POWDER TAKEN FROM ALUMINUM CONTAINERS
(Q41A–Q60A)
Q61–Q72: CLEAR LIQUID TAKEN FROM COMMERCIAL DRUMS (Q61A–Q72A)
(Q73–Q81): “PAMPERS” BAG CONTAINING OFF-WHITE COLORED POWDER
(Q73A–Q81A)
Q82–Q95: SUITCASES, PORTIONS OF SUITCASES
Q83A: ONE “FENDI” PURSE, BLACK AND BROWN FROM Q83
Q96: ONE KEY
Q97–Q109: ONE DOZEN CARDBOARD BOXES, VARYING DIMENSIONS
Q97A: ONE CARTON MARLBORO LIGHTS CIGARETTES FROM Q97
Q102A: MAN’S ARMANI SUIT, 38R FROM Q102
Q103A: MAN’S VERSACE SUIT, 40L FROM Q103
Q108A: ONE “BATMAN” ACTION FIGURE TOY FROM Q108
Q110–Q124: TWO DOZEN PANASONIC CALLER ID 900 MHZ TELEPHONES

SPECIMENS RECEIVED 11/24/2000
FINGERPRINT CARDS
PALM PRINTS
HAIR SAMPLES

FBI LAB WASHINGTON DC REPORT OF EXAMINATION
OCTOBER 12, 2000
CHEMISTRY UNIT, DANIEL M. HICKEY EXAMINER
ANALYSIS OF SPECIMENS RECEIVED 9/30/2000 FROM U-STOR-IT
STORAGE UNIT #532, 23400 PAUL REVERE HIGHWAY, EVERETT,
MASS. 02149
ITEMS Q22–Q39 CONTAIN ETHYLENE GLYCOL (ANTI-FREEZE).
ITEM Q40 IS RDX. RDX IS CLASSIFIED AS A HIGH EXPLOSIVE.
ITEMS Q41–Q50 ARE HMTD. HMTD IS CLASSIFIED AS A HIGH EXPLOSIVE.
ITEMS Q51–Q55 ARE SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE (BLEACH).
ITEMS Q56–Q60 ARE UREA.
Q61–Q72 CONTAIN EGDN. EGDN IS CLASSIFIED AS A HIGH EXPLOSIVE.
ITEMS Q73–Q81 ARE DIACETYLMORPHINE (HEROIN).