Oh well, the longer we have to wait the more there is to look forward to!
(She said, with fake cheer 
)
That last section of chapter 13, with Jack looking at himself in the mirror and seeing himself at peace, already gone.........? It reminded me so much of a section of Romeo and Juliet that I had to look the passage up. It's the last words that Juliet speaks to Romeo and it goes like this:
O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:
Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.Yup, that's just what Jack sees in his own reflection in that mirror. Romeo's reply, that they're pale because "
Dry sorrow drinks their blood" is fitting for SoG too...........
That said, and Shakespeare out of the way for now, I don't quite see how Jack can make the deal with Hinestroza over the phone. Hinestroza knows Jack has agreed to witness against him, and that he is in protective custody, so wouldn't he think the phone call was just a FBI ploy to incriminate him? That the phone was being tapped, and any admission he'd make to knowing Jack, let alone any open agreement made to spare Ennis's life if Jack turns himself over to Madrigal, - might be used in evidence? Or would that be considered inadmissible in court as coerced evidence, and would H. know that?
**scratches head ** I mean, it's not like the case against Hinestroza is watertight - if Jack doesn't witness there isn't much of a case apparently, so certainly H. must be wary that the FBI would be delighted to have him incriminating himself on tape.
Yet if H. does not first give Jack an unambiguous promise to stay Madrigal's hand where Ennis is concerned, why should Jack go through with any agreed trade and sacrifice himself?
I'm anxiously waiting to see how all this will play out.....
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