The crisis breaks with Pat home in Milton: "Call Pat's machine and Calvin"

texture · 11-12 Nov YDAU, ~midnight

• When: the night of 11-12 Nov YDAU, ~0000h — Pat's off-hours
• What: The institutional catastrophe that consumes Pat's next week detonates while she is home on the South Shore: Lenz's animal-killing brings three armed Nucks to the House's streetlet at car-moving hour, and Gately — the only Staffer on — is shot subduing them. Pat's absence is structural, not accidental: the delegation regime of event 10 routes the House's worst night to her answering machine. Joelle's overhead shout is for Christ's sake somebody call Pat; Gately's own instruction, bleeding on the blacktop, names the chain of command exactly — machine first.