Chapter 20
Chapter 20 — The Resolution of Things Unfinished
Silas attends Margaret Aldiss's grand jury testimony, which proves devastating to OmniPharm. Castellano's panel moves to indict Julian Vance on multiple charges. Vance is arrested at OmniPharm headquarters. In the aftermath, Silas meets with Detective Rossi, who reveals that the evidence connecting Vance to Eleanor's murder through Harlan Voss is now sufficient for a formal homicide investigation. Silas visits Eleanor's grave one final time, finding a measure of peace while acknowledging that grief does not resolve the way cases do. Evelyn Reed reaches out to begin building a new life. The book closes with Silas sitting in his apartment, the case closed but his interior life still open, still becoming.
The courtroom was smaller than Silas had expected.
He had imagined something cavernous—the kind of room that could hold the weight of what was about to happen inside it, with vaulted ceilings and the hush of institutional stone. But Castellano's grand jury panel met in a room on the third floor of the federal courthouse that could have been a conference room in any municipal building in any city in the country: fluorescent lights, a table long enough to seat fourteen, windows that faced east and admitted a thin, institutional light that made everything look slightly worn. The room's modesty struck Silas as appropriate. Justice, when it finally arrived, rarely announced itself with architecture. It arrived in small rooms, through procedural language, in the raising of a hand.
Margaret Aldiss entered at two fifty-three.
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