1:48 pm

Frank was still in the restaurant, sampling pork gyoza, when his phone buzzed. It was a text from Dani, with copies to Kevin and other members of the task force, saying that Blackgranite's van had been found in a parking garage at Washington Heights. The text concluded with Regular print techs indisposed by Covid. But cops on scene have kit. Stand by.

Frank ate his gyoza, He could picture Kevin with his own comfort food. Eating was the best way to get through the tedium of waiting for a suspect or a message — unless your superiors were worried about your body mass index. But that problem was far from imminent with Frank, and Kate, heavyset herself, would not be first to call Kevin out.

As the clock was about to strike two (or fourteen, if your mind was stuck on the 24-hour system), Frank's phone buzzed again.

Dani's message read Most of interior wiped clean. But good prints on passenger visor ID'd as Carla Lowenstein, convicted of Man One in 1990 for the death of her six-year-old daughter.

Cocaine was found on and around passenger seat. This info has been relayed to DEA and NYPD Narcotics.

Have located several of Carla's known contacts and we will interview them.

Chief wants all members at Troy's residence to stay where they are.

"I just might develop a weight problem," Frank muttered.