In the wake of Qingming’s revelation, the night bleeds out into a sombre quiet.
He feels Sui Zhou's smile unlace over his pulse, languid and nude in its amusement. "You've had the morning," he answers, unmoved. "The day won't keep for you."
"If you have a choice in not having a choice about coming,” Fu Meng-po says, eyebrows cocked out from behind the frame of his sunglasses, “then it's not a kidnapping."
“You’re not fun,” Kuan-hung complains. “At all.”
The crew of the Volunteer take pains to revive their surgeon after his plunge.
Hickey is dying, and Gibson has seen better days.
Bob Benson is a problem-solver. It's 45 minutes before the SCDP Christmas party and Pete has a pretty big problem.
"You're a landsman at heart, but that can change."
Hal gets stabbed; Hickey gets invasive.
Hickey and Tozer share an extremely unauthorized celebration in the showers.