Holding the wreckage: depositions on her OK, the Item hunt, the Gompert warrant

pivotal · 12-20 Nov YDAU

• When: the days after the shooting, 12-20 Nov YDAU
• What: Even under what Gately recognizes as felony-weight domestic stress at home, Pat runs the legal cleanup as Director. Eyewitness residents' depositions are taken on Pat's written OK — admitting the BPD's Finest, plus some rather weirder Federal guys with goofy-looking archaic crew cuts, into the court-mandated Protected House. Because the missing .44 is the hinge between self-defense and a homicide beef, she has limped around and appealed to every single resident personally to produce the Item (the hunt fails). She has been pretty unconditionally loving about Gately's part in the fight while plainly unthrilled with Thrust's tactics; she has sworn out a P.C. warrant for the vanished, suicidal Kate Gompert; and she was considering rewarding the House Manager's coolness under fire — planted in the doorway against the Finest — by promoting her to Assistant Director next month. The resident-altitude counterpoint stands: Gately, in pain and legal fear, at one low point resents that Pat M. doesn't have the brass to force the residents to give the gun up — the recurring price of event 11's mercy. Cross-ref Gately's timeline (event 51), event 54.