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Last Patient of the Night
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Chapters 13-24Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section includes discussion of physical violence/torture, sexual violence, and substance use and dependency.
Chapter 13 Summary
Doc goes for a late-night meal at IHOP, where he’s greeted by Little D, the chef, and Gladys, a single mother who works as a waitress to support her children. Doc is friends with both of them, as he regularly stops at IHOP.
Doc goes back to his car, where he finds a group of three teenage boys huddled around his car. One of the teenagers pulls out a knife. Doc goads him, and the teenager attacks. Doc fights him off and subdues him before telling the other teenagers to give him their knives and take their friend home or face arrest by the police. Little D stands behind Doc with a bat, but Doc doesn’t need his help. He gives Little D the knives and tells him to dispose of them.
Chapter 14 Summary
Doc arrives early at the hospital before Tracy’s autopsy. He, Jane, and Lenny (Skinny Jeans) enter the autopsy suite to find Morquist Levy assigned to the case. Morquist determines that her cause of death was an arterial venous malformation, or AVM, which causes brain bleeding when ruptured. Morquist states that Tracy’s AVM was not the result of brain trauma but instead ruptured due to the rise in blood pressure caused by Tracy’s fear.
