Hal gets stabbed; Hickey gets invasive.
He wonders, for all the seconds it takes for Tang Fan to start to move, if he’s fallen asleep again. He’s not convinced it is at all possible for him to have a dream as odd as this, as ominous, as wonderful. The Tang Fan that is trying to kick his bare feet beneath the lifted linens while all the heat Sui Zhou’s body has pressed into them escapes is too wholly fleshed out to be one of Sui Zhou’s fantasies.
How can he want for something he does not have when its lack leaves no absence?
Irving takes it on himself to correct Mr. Hickey's permissive attitudes regarding buggery.
Xue Ling should rightly leave it be. But: Sui da-ge had brought the magistrate here so he wouldn't be hurt, and he seems prone to injuring himself more than anything.
Some guys just can't resist doing a comrade a favor.
Intrepid ad man Pete Campbell plunges into the twilit homosexual underworld of New York City in search of answers. Bob Benson helps.
"You're a landsman at heart, but that can change."
Eddie gets some late-night visitors when he and Steve are hanging out. Afraid of getting busted, Steve hides in the closet, and then wishes he didn't.
Unpleasant things happen to Jim Halsey, several times in a row but not in any particular order.