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Summary

Cops and Robbers: Chapters 98–116

It is 1982—Saint has turned down her acceptance to Dartmouth and stayed in Monta Clare to train under Chief Nix as a police officer. Dr. Tooms has been sentenced to death after pleading not guilty to the murder of Callie Montrose, and declared insane after refusing to speak to anyone, including his lawyers. Patch chases leads on Grace, and Saint checks in on his mother while he is away. One day, Saint finds Ivy Macauley dead in her house, and Patch leaves Monta Clare after receiving the news. 

Patch takes to driving across the states, seeking out the parents of missing girls and painting portraits of them, which he sends back to Sammy to display in the gallery where the girls can be seen by the public. He continues searching the country for Grace; low on funds, he starts robbing banks using the unloaded one-shot flint replica gun that Saint gave him a long time ago, donating most of the stolen money to missing persons charities.

Read analysis of a quote by Walter Strike, one of the parents Patch visits.

Jimmy and Patch are dating steadily; Jimmy is studying to become a veterinarian while working at the zoo. Every night, when she is alone, Saint looks back over the file of Patch’s kidnapping, refusing to give up on the hunt for Grace and Eli Aaron. Once, at the police station, she takes a call from a streetwalker in St. Louis who tips her off about a missing girl. Saint finds the girl, calls for reinforcement, and successfully reunites the girl with her parents. 

Patch robs another bank but this time is caught. A policeman shoots at him but misses, and Patch escapes, donating the stolen money to another charity. He meets up with Sammy in Washington, D.C. People have started buying his paintings from Sammy for huge sums of money, half of which Patch sends to the parents of the girls the paintings are based on and the other half to missing persons charities.  

Saint struggles through a lackluster relationship with Jimmy, who has asked for Norma’s permission to propose to Saint. Norma advises her to marry him, even while she knows it’s Patch that Saint truly wants. 

Patch goes to New England and gets a job on a trawler in Gloucester, where he happily spends his days fishing for lobster and his nights sleeping on the beach. One night he goes with some of the crew into Boston, where he accidentally reunites with Misty Meyer by carrying her away from a bar fight. They spend the evening catching up and dancing; back at her place they have sex, and Patch leaves early in the morning before she wakes up. 

Saint spends one last morning in her grandmother’s house before marrying and moving in with Jimmy. At the wedding, she glimpses Patch standing alone in the back; he greets her but leaves soon after the ceremony. Her wedding night with Jimmy is disappointing, their first time having sex ending before it even begins. A few days later, Nix tells her the FBI wants to meet with her. 

Jimmy is against Saint going to Kansas City to meet with the FBI; he wants her to quit her job and focus on getting pregnant, but Saint refuses, advocating for her career. She goes to Kansas and meets Himes, an executive at the FBI who offers her an assignment: to hunt down and arrest Patch.

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