The Rudolph part is weird. I'm surprised nothing happened to him after being a pawn for the Reds in Changes.
That might be because Jim wanted to resolve it on screen. I know I want to read him getting his comeuppance. He's internal affairs, so CPD isn't likely to be investigating him, but we know a certain FBI agent who thinks he's dirty, and corruption cases is right up the FBI's ally.
Harry should have fed Rudolf to the Ick. I'm tired of the character.
@Yuillegan: 5. The most straight forward way to heal is to transform damaged body parts into healthy body parts. To do this would take advanced medical knowledge. Way to much for Harry, but not to much for a wizard who focuses on healing. The big problem with that is it
might run up against the second law of magic. One alternative is that Harry is looking, but hasn't said anything because he hasn't found anything, doesn't expect to, and doesn't want to give her false hope.
9. Don't talk to the cops. Innocent, guilty, whatever. You won't like the results. Murphy would know better and Harry should too. "Here's a picture of you from the day a guy got murdered. Why were you there?" If you're going to answer the question, do it with questions. "What day was it, what time was it, where was it?" Any other answer is basically saying "Yeah, I remember when and where I was when that guy died without reference to a date."
Agreed, maybe with a warrant? Most likely they never asked the doctor.
A warrant is highly unlikely. I too think the cops were using a tried and true law enforcement tactic of lying.
And modern medicine still has a huge mortality rate despite all of our advances.
200,000 to 400,000 people a year die from medical mistakes. I'm not talking about "out best wasn't good enough," but "he died because he went to the doctor" mistakes. And that's probably not counting all the doctor's who start people off on pills that end up turning them into addicts who die. The numbers were from a John's Hopkins study and, I think, something from Harvard or some other ivy league school. So good point about the 1st law. Didn't even occur to me.
I think Murphy might end up making a Faustian bargain to get back in the game. Odin probably has the best prices. One doesn't have to be a Valkyrie or Einherjar to serve Odin or ask his favor. There's a chance Murphy could go to work for Monoc Securities as a vanilla mortal on the condition that she is healed.
I think we've all missed the most important part of IA's involvement. Somebody just went nuclear. They've involved mortals in a supernatural conflict. It'd be one thing if they were targeting Murphy to get at Harry. We've seen that sort of play at least twice before, not counting
Changes where the perpetrator didn't live long enough to suffer the consequences. (Mavra in DB and the White Court in
Jury Duty). Here, they're targeting Harry. Clearly part of the supernatural world and not the mortal world. We've heard that the masquerade is going to end. We've heard that it's starting to fray. Many have guessed this is the book for it.
Someone targeting Harry with IA makes me think it's even more likely this is where we're going.
