Chapter 18

Murphy met Summa at the bar to get filled in on Summa’s meeting with Lewis. She was unaware that Summa had been fired. After taking a long chug from a bottled beer, Summa said, “He wants to use the invention. Says he wants to confirm that some guy murdered someone with a car. Claims that he found out about the invention from the TV news piece. He’s tailed Stone and has pictures of him wearing the glasses and has threatened to go public with the information that the invention exists. And by the way, I’ve been fired.”

“Threatening to go public doesn’t hurt us. We’ll be going public soon anyway. Think we can string him along for a week or so? This way he’ll keep quiet until we’re ready to make our announcement. Once we do that we can tell him no. What can he do then? What did you say?”

“I’ve been fired.”

“No you weren’t. I don’t believe you.”

But the look on Summa’s face told Murphy that he wasn’t fooling.

“Why?”

“He didn’t say.”

“What a rotten thing to do.”

“Think so?”

“I’ll talk to Jon.”

“Don’t bother. He won’t change his mind.”

“I’m going to try. In my opinion, we can’t help Lewis. The invention was not created for the bereaved. Our client won’t want the shine taken off his new toy by sharing its power with one person with a sob story. I say no,” answered Murphy.

Summa felt for Lewis and wanted to help him. He wondered how he could get away with it.