Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

Cora returns to her apartment building to find it swarming with cops. She is escorted to her floor by a cop when she tells him she lives there, and she smells blood as she passes the third floor on the way up. Outside her apartment, she discovers that her doormat is askew and there is a footprint on her door, as if someone tried to kick it down. Cora enters, trying to reassure herself that at least they didn’t make it in, and that the inside is still safe.

The next job the crew works at is a slightly different one—it is still a Chinatown murder, but a male cop named Wang is the victim. He was shot dead with a machine gun while asleep in his bed. Cora and Harvey begin cleaning up, as Yifei is running late. While she is working, a skeletal hand with a jade bracelet on suddenly grabs Cora’s ankle from underneath the bed and gestures for her to look. There is no one there, but Cora finds a thumb drive.

Yifei arrives in a rage, showing the others a newspaper article about how crime in Chinatown has gone down since Mayor Webb increased the police budget.